Faculty and Staff

Lilian Abbo, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Medicine
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Biography: Dr. Lilian M Abbo, graduated from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Medico Cirujano. M.D.) She subsequently trained in Internal Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center, NY (internship) and Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach (residency) and University of Miami/ Jackson Memorial Hospital (fellow in Clinical Infectious Diseases). Dr Abbo, is currently the Associate Chief...
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Maria L. Alcaide, M.D.

Professor
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Biography: Dr. Alcaide is an Infectious Diseases physician scientist, and faculty member of the University of Miami for over 15 years. She holds additional secondary appointments in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and the Department of Public Health. Throughout her career as a clinician and researcher, Dr. Alcaide has provided scientific and administrative...
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Shweta Anjan, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Profile
Biography: Shweta Anjan, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Anjan completed Medical School from Kasturba Medical College Manipal in India. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and Infectious Diseases and Transplant...
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Folusakin Ayoade, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: Dr. Ayoade is an Infectious disease expert with primary area of interest in the neuroimmune, bio-behavioral and inflammatory pathways influencing infectious diseases (such as HIV, COVID-19, meningitis syndromes, etc.) effects on the nervous system and the neurological complications of these diseases (stroke, cognitive impairment, cerebral small vessel disease, etc.). By...
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Gio J. Baracco, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: Dr. Baracco is the Associate Chief of Staff for Hospital Epidemiology and Occupational Health at the Miami VA Healthcare System and holds multiple national roles within the Veterans Health Administration. His career and academic focus is in hospital epidemiology, and his clinical interests span the spectrum of general infectious diseases.
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Laura Beauchamps, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
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Biography: Dr. Beauchamps is an Infectious Disease associate professor with expertise in comprehensive HIV care, HIV prevention, and STI prevention and treatment in vulnerable populations. She is a clinical educator and participates actively in research. Her work emphasizes lowering community HIV viral burden through increasing antiretroviral use and increasing the uptake of use...
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Julia Bini Viotti, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: Julia Bini Viotti, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She completed her medical education at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil, where she began her career focusing on the treatment of patients with HIV/AIDS. She then completed her Internal...
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Catherine Boulanger, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: I have been the Director of the Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH) Respiratory Clinic since 1993 caring for persons co-infected with TB/HIV. I was entrusted with the design and implementation of a new program coordinating care between JMH and the Miami-Dade Department of Health. I have been following HIV infected persons in the JMH Special Immunology clinic since 1992. I...
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Jose F. Camargo, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
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Biography: Dr. Jose F. Camargo is a Transplant Infectious Diseases specialist with over 10 years of experience. He completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in immunogenetics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; and underwent Internal Medicine training at Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York; followed by an Infectious...
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Jose Castro, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: Dr. Castro is the Clinical Chief of the Infectious Diseases Division. He has clinical expertise in general infectious diseases and in the treatment and prevention of HIV infection. He also has expertise in Infection Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs.
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Shaoli Chaudhuri, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: Dr. Chaudhuri joined the faculty at the University of Miami in 2024. She completed her internal medicine residency and infectious diseases fellowship in New York City, at Columbia-New York Presbyterian Hospital and Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, respectively. She had previously obtained her Masters in Public Health while in medical school in Texas. Dr. Chaudhuri...
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Teresa A. Chueng, M.D., M.P.H.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
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Biography: As a native Texan, Dr. Teresa Chueng moved to Miami to complete her internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship. In 2022, she joined as faculty in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Dr. Chueng is passionate about the intersection of infectious diseases with addiction medicine. She...
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Susanne Doblecki-Lewis, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: Dr. Susanne Doblecki-Lewis is a Professor of Clinical Medicine and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Miami and an infectious diseases clinician in the Jackson Memorial Hospital and University of Miami. Her clinical and research focus is on improving access to HIV and infectious disease prevention strategies for underserved populations. As...
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Margaret Fischl, M.D., F.A.C.P.

Professor

Biography: I am a tenured professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases.
I designed and conducted multiple HIV/AIDS therapeutic and translational studies as PI of the NIAID supported Miami AIDS Clinical Trials Group Unit for over 30 years. I was involved in the design and conduct of the first antiretroviral agents approved for the...
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Ricardo Fonseca Franco, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

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Michael A. Gelman, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: Dr. Gelman is the Deputy Hospital Epidemiologist at the Miami VA Healthcare System and a practicing Infectious Diseases physician. He received an MD and a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Washington and infectious diseases fellowship at Stanford University, and has experience...
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Dushyantha Jayaweera, M.D.

Professor

Biography: Dr. Jayaweera is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami. He received his M.D. degree from Sri Lanka and trained in Sri Lanka, Great Britain, and Loyola University of Chicago. He came to the University of Miami as an assistant professor of medicine. He was promoted to a full professor by 2006. Subsequently, he became the Associate Vice Provost for Human Subject...
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Michael A. Kolber, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor
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Biography: Michael Kolber, PhD, MD is Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Operations in the Department of Medicine, and he has secondary professorial appointments in the departments of Public Health Sciences, and Microbiology/Immunology. He received his MD from the University of Miami School of Medicine and completed his residency at the George Washington University Hospital in...
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Paola N. Lichtenberger, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: Dr. Paola Lichtenberger, Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Chief of Infectious Disease at the Miami Veteran's Affairs Healthcare Center, embodies a synergistic career built on clinical education, dedicated antimicrobial stewardship, and extensive global health expertise. This culminates in her focused mission to...
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Christopher Lopez, D.O.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: Christopher Lopez, D.O., is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He completed medical school at Western University College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in Pomona, California. His residency in Internal Medicine was completed at Legacy Health in Portland, Oregon,...
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Michele I. Morris, M.D.

Director, Immunocompromised Host Section, Division of Infectious Diseases
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Biography: Michele Ilene Morris, M.D., FIDSA, FAST is a Professor of Clinical Medicine and director of the Immunocompromised Host Section in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She has spent the last 20 years of her career focusing her clinical practice and research efforts on transplant infectious diseases, with special attention...
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Yoichiro Natori, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: Dr. Natori was born in Japan and earned his medical degree from Nagoya University School of Medicine. He completed his residency and infectious disease fellowship at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. Additionally, he finished his Transplant Infectious Disease fellowship at University Health Network, University of Toronto. Currently, Dr. Natori serves...
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Alexis Powell, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

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Mohammed Raja, M.D.

Assistant Professor in Clinical Medicine

Biography: Mohammed Raja, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Raja completed his medical school from Gulf Medical University in the U.A.E. He then completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, following which he pursued a fellowship...
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Allan Rodriguez, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: Dr. Allan E. Rodríguez is a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the division of Infectious Diseases with a secondary appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences and School of Nursing and Health Studies at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine He is currently the director of the Population Engagement Core of the Miami CFAR and Co-Director of the...
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Isabella Rosa-Cunha, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
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Biography: Dr. Rosa-Cunha is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. A leading expert in HPV-related diseases and anal cancer prevention, she focuses on underserved populations, particularly individuals living with HIV.

She...
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Tony Salloum, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
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David P. Serota, M.D., M.Sc.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
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Biography: I grew up in Miami and graduated from the Miller School of Medicine. After further medical training in Portland, Oregon and Atlanta, Georgia, I moved back to join the faculty in 2019. I am board certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and addiction medicine.
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Mark Sharkey, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professors

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Bhavarth Shukla, M.D., M.P.H.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: Dr. Shukla’s research interests include infection control, hospital epidemiology, antimicrobial stewardship, and medical education. His work has focused on understanding transmission and clinical management of multi-drug resistant organisms such as VRE and C. auris as well as effects of antimicrobial stewardship training programs on antibiotic utilization....
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Jacques Simkins-Cohen, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: I went to medical school in Caracas, Venezuela. Then I did my internal medicine residence at Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami and my ID fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
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Candice Sternberg, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

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Mario Stevenson, Ph.D.

Professor

Biography: Dr. Mario Stevenson is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, Director of the Institute of AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases (IAEID), Director of the Global Virus Network, and Co-Director of the Miami Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) at the University of Miami. Prior to 2020, Dr. Stevenson was the David Freelander Chair for AIDS Research at the University of Massachusetts...
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Stephen Symes, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: Stephen Symes, M.D., F.A.C.P., is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Miller School of Medicine. He completed his medical education at Howard University in 1989 and Internal Medicine residency at Jackson Memorial Medical Center in 1992. With main clinical activities in HIV and AIDS, Dr. Symes developed pathways to train...
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Hansel Tookes, M.D., M.P.H.

Professor

Biography: Hansel Tookes is a tenured Professor of Medicine at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He is founder of the IDEA Lab whose mission is to implement, disseminate, educate, and advocate for the health of people who use drugs. His lab also houses the IDEA syringe services program – the first legal program in Florida. Dr. Tookes spent five years advocating in the...
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Aasith Villavicencio Paz, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Biography: Dr. Villavicencio Paz is an Infectious Disease physician and faculty member at the University of Miami. She completed her Internal Medicine residency in the Global Health Pathway at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital and returns after finishing her Infectious Diseases fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She will be attending on...
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Gordon Dickinson, M.D.

Staff Physician/Voluntary Faculty/Emeritus Faculty

Jyoti Somani, M.D.

Staff Physician/Voluntary Faculty