Dr Perfect is the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases; the John B Duke Professor of Medicine; and a Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and American Board of Infectious Diseases.
After receiving an undergraduate degree in biology from Wittenberg University, Dr Perfect went on to receive a medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo. He then completed an internship at the Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio; a residency in internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor; and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Duke University Medical Center.
A member of the American Society for Microbiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Dr Perfect is also a member of the American Federation of Clinical Research, International Society for Human and Animal Mycology, and the International Immunocompromised Host Society. Dr Perfect has served on numerous committees and advisory boards and is on the editorial boards of multiple journals in infectious diseases. He is also the author of more than 300 articles and more than 250 abstracts, editorials, and letters.
Dr Perfect’s research interests focus on the understanding of fungal pathogenesis through the study of Cryptococcus neoformans as well as clinical studies on the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of invasive mycoses.
Dr Patterson is Professor and Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas, where he is also the Director of the San Antonio Center for Medical Mycology and Vice-Chair for Faculty Development.
Dr Patterson received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Baylor University followed by his medical degree from the University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston. Subsequently, he completed a medicine residency at Vanderbilt University and Yale-New Haven Hospital. He was then a postdoctoral fellow in infectious diseases at Yale University School of Medicine.
Dr Patterson is a member of numerous professional committees and societies, including a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, American Society for Microbiology, International Society for Human and Animal Mycoses and the International Immunocompromised Host Society where he serves as Past President. In addition, he currently holds several editorial positions, including being Co-Editor-in-Chief of www.drfungus.org and Current Opinions in Infectious Diseases. His research has appeared in journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, and Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. He has been published in print and audio formats and has been invited across the globe to speak as a guest lecturer.
Dr Marty is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and attending physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Transplant and Oncology Infectious Diseases.
Dr Marty’s research interests include the clinical epidemiology of infectious diseases in diverse transplant and cancer populations, the development and validation of novel infectious disease diagnostics in immunocompromised hosts, and the conduct of clinical trials for investigational antiinfectives of particular relevance to these populations. He leads the clinical infectious disease consult service for patients at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is editor-in-chief of the Transplant Infectious Disease journal.
Dr Marty received his MD degree from Universidad Central de Venezuela, did his residency in internal medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he served as chief resident, and his fellowship in infectious diseases at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital combined program. He has a Master in Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health and is a Fellow of the American College of Medicine and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.