membership directory WORKING TOGETHER TO FIGHT INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The Emerging Pathogens Institutes has members that span among 11 different colleges and units at the University of Florida. With more than 200 distinguished faculty members, EPI supports the best minds. Biologists, epidemiologists, geographers, biostatisticians, mathematicians, physicians, veterinarians and other scientists create the strong collaborative spirit of EPI.
John Gums, PharmD
Professor and Associate Dean for Clinical and Administrative Affairs
Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research, College of Pharmacy
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Artificial intelligence
- Antimicrobial resistance patterns
- Plant disease diagnosis
- Plant disease management
- Extension
- National Plant Diagnostic Network
- Diagnostic assay validation
- Foodborne diseases
- Zoonoses
- Microbiology
- Epidemiology
- Risk assessment
- Epidemiology
- Infectious Disease
- Mathematical Modeling
- Study Design
- Immunity
- Imaging
- Fungal diseases
- Tuberculosis
- Computed tomography
- Magnetic resonance
- Ontology
- Electronic health records
- Infectious disease ecology and evolutionary biology
Robert Huigens, PhD
Associate Professor & Graduate Coordinator
Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy
- Drug discovery
- Chemical synthesis
- Medicinal chemistry
- Antibiotics
- Bacterial biofilms
- Emerging infections
- Multi-drug resistant bacteria
- Influenza
- COVID-19
- Clinical trials
Ramiro Isaza, DVM, MPH
Professor of Zoological Medicine
Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Elephant diseases, management and physiology
- Zoonotic diseases of non-domestic species
- Epidemiology in captive animal populations
- Public health pertaining to non-domestic species