Meet Our Team
Brian T. Fisher, DO, MPH, MSCE
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Multiple Principal Investigator
Project Lead, Project 1
Project Lead, Administrative Core
Expertise: Infections in immunocompromised children
William J. Steinbach, MD
Arkansas Children's
Little Rock, AR
Multiple Principal Investigator
Project Lead, Project 1
Project Lead, Career Enhancement Core
Expertise: Infections in immunocompromised children
Rachel Wattier, MD, MHS
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals
San Franscico, CA
Co-Investigator, Project 1
Expertise: Pediatric infectious diseases clinical epidemiology and health services research, implementation science, patient and family engagement, qualitative and mixed methods research
Paul J. Planet, MD, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Principal Investigator
Project Lead, Project 2
Expertise: Microbial ecology and evolution, bacterial pathogenesis and virulence, microbiomics and genomics, phylogenetics, global spread of antimicrobial resistance, MRSA, infection in cystic fibrosis
Ahmed Moustafa, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Co-Investigator, Project 2
Expertise: Infectious disease genomics
Joseph P. Zackular, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Co-Investigator, Project 2
Expertise: Microbial ecology, microbiome, bacterial pathogenesis and virulence, enteric infection, Clostridioides difficile infection, genomics
Robert Potter, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Co-Investigator, Project 2
Expertise: Infectious disease genomics, clinical microbiology
Nathan P. Wiederhold, PharmD
University of Texas, San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
Co-Investigator, Project 2
Expertise: Antifungal susceptibility, clinical diagnostics, antifungal PK/PD, investigational antifungals
Pratik Patel, MD
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
Principal Investigator
Project Lead, Project 3
Expertise: Pediatric transplant and oncology infectious disease, leukemia/lymphoma, diagnostics
Julie M. Steinbrink, MD, MHS
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC
Co-Investigator, Project 3
Expertise: Infections in immunocompromised adults, fungal infections, noninvasive host biomarkers of infection
Micah T. McClain, MD, PhD
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC
Co-Investigator, Project 3
Expertise: Biomarker based diagnostics and severity prediction tools
Susan Sotardi, MD, MS
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Co-Investigator, Project 3
Anna Huppler, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
Project Lead, Pilot/Feasibility Governance Core
Expertise: Infections in immunocompromised children and adults