Division of Infectious Diseases
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The Division of Infectious Diseases at the James H. Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University is committed to excellence in teaching, clinical care, and research. Division faculty members are present at each of our main teaching hospitals, including the Johnson City Medical Center and the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center. Division members have a broad range of research interests, including molecular pathogenesis, epidemiology, and clinical studies, with presentations in all of these areas at national meetings. Division members now include an epidemiologist coordinating bioterrorism preparedness and outbreak management. Divisional publications in the basic research arena have focused on fundamental signaling pathways employed by hepatitis C virus and on the role of Staphylococcus epidermidis as a reservoir for antimicrobial resistance. Clinical studies have examined infections including blastomycosis, actinomycosis, HIV infection and West Nile Virus. Clinical trials with novel antimicrobials and antiretrovirals are currently in progress.