Our People

Wendy S. Armstrong, MD, FIDSA, is an active clinician providing inpatient general and transplant ID care and outpatient HIV care. She has been part of the vibrant community of infectious diseases/HIV physicians for more than 25 years. Dr. Armstrong is head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and is a passionate advocate for addressing the ID/HIV workforce, including clinicians, educators, physician-scientists and public health experts.

Maximo O. Brito, MD, MPH, FIDSA, is a professor of medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the chief of infectious diseases at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. He served as program director for the ID fellowship at the University of Illinois for over 10 years.

Rana Chakraborty, MD, DPhil, FIDSA is professor of pediatrics and division chief in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. He is also a director for the Center for AIDS Research at that institution. He is an experienced physician-scientist and educator in perinatal, pediatric and adolescent infectious diseases. His lab has unique expertise in placental and fetal immunology. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he expanded his research portfolio to SARS-CoV-2 infection in the mother-infant dyad. Dr. Chakraborty is committed to addressing health equity and diversity in medicine, having served as chair of the Diversity Committee in Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics and as the former chair for the Section of International Medical Graduates at the American Academy of Pediatrics. 

Jasmine R. Marcelin, MD, FIDSA, FACP, is a Caribbean native born on the island of Dominica. She is an associate professor of medicine/infectious diseases, co-director of digital innovation & social media strategy for the Division of Infectious Diseases, vice chair of belonging and community engagement in the Department of Internal Medicine and associate medical director of antimicrobial stewardship at University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Marcelin earned her medical degree from the American University of Antigua College of Medicine and completed her internal medicine and infectious diseases training at the Mayo Clinic before joining the Division of Infectious Diseases at UNMC in 2017.