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Erol Fikrig, MD
infectious diseases maudry laurent-rolle, md, phd
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he Section of Infectious Diseases played a leading role in COVID-19 research
and clinical trials while continuing its work in HIV/AIDS, Lyme, and other infectious diseases. Seventy-four faculty, 51 staff, and 57 postdocs, postgrads, and clinical fellows make up the section, led by Section Chief Erol Fikrig, MD, and Clinical Chief Vincent Quagliarello, MD. Clinical Updates COVID-19 Maricar Malinis, MD: Jeffrey Topal, MD: Marwan Azar, MD: and Shana Gleeson, MD, led the Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS) COVID-19 treatment team. This multidisciplinary team of pharmacists, pulmonologists, allergists/immunologists, hematologists, OB/GYN specialists, and pathologists created treatment
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algorithms for people infected by the disease in inpatient and outpatient settings. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the inpatient treatment guidelines have been updated over 30 times, and recently were converted to an EPIC pathway to reflect rapidly evolving guidance. Due to multiple waves of COVID-19 infections and the immune-evasive Omicron variant, infectious disease and pharmacy faculty have been working tirelessly to
adapt current guidance to incorporate newly available therapeutics. Topal, Malinis, and Azar also have led hospital and university-wide efforts to devise and update COVID-19 vaccination guidelines and testing strategies, including guidelines for immunocompromised patients for whom national guidance is scarce. Richard A. Martinello, MD; Scott Roberts, MD; and pediatric infectious diseases
