A clinician at the intersection of infectious diseases, education, and emerging science.
I am an infectious diseases physician and clinician-educator interested in one central question: how can we use what science is making possible to care for patients more thoughtfully?
Why this work matters to me
The way we think shapes the way we practice. Infectious disease medicine has always depended on careful clinical reasoning, microbiology, epidemiology, and pattern recognition. Those foundations remain essential. At the same time, the field is changing quickly.
Advanced diagnostics can reveal organisms that conventional pathways may miss. Microbiome science is changing how we think about microbes as both pathogens and partners in health. Phage therapy and other emerging therapeutics are opening new conversations in an era of antimicrobial resistance. HIV prevention continues to show what is possible when innovation reaches patients.
My work is about translating these developments into clinical thinking without losing the fundamentals that make medicine sound.
A way of thinking, not a replacement for the specialty
I use the phrase Precision Infectious Disease Medicine to describe a mindset rather than a new specialty. It begins with awareness of the patterns shaping how we approach a problem, asks whether the familiar pathway is sufficient, and remains open to broader approaches when evolving evidence and technology make them possible.
The goal is not novelty for its own sake. The goal is better care for the patient in front of us.
Read the ideas behind the work.
Explore case-based teaching, advanced diagnostics, microbiome stewardship, AMR, HIV prevention, and the future of infectious diseases.