A review of infectious disease literature. New episodes every other Tuesday.
The Hosts of Infectious Disease Puscast
Daniel Griffin, MD, Ph.D. CTropMed CTH
A physician-scientist, board-certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease with expertise in Global Health, Tropical Medicine, Parasitology, and Virology, including SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19). Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Optum TriState and an Infectious Disease Physician at Columbia University. An active clinician and internationally invited speaker lecturing for multiple organizations, including the University of Glasgow, the Peace Corp, University of Minnesota, Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC), Floating Doctors, and Remote Care Education, as well as for other groups in Asia, the Caribbean, Central America, Africa, and India. One of the hosts of the popular podcasts This Week in Parasitism, This Week in Virology, and The IDPuscast. One of the authors of Parasitic Diseases, now in its 7th Edition with thousands of copies distributed to over 100 countries worldwide. His non-profit organization Parasites Without Borders shares office space with MicrobeTV.
Sara Dong, Ph.D.
Sara was born and raised in South Carolina. After medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), she completed her Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus, OH). She served as a Med-Peds chief resident while in training, followed by an additional chief resident year for the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Pediatric residency program. She did her Med-Peds ID fellowship training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital. While in Boston, she also completed the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School.
Sara is currently based in Atlanta, where she’s a Med-Peds Transplant ID attending at Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.