Oscar G. Gomez MD, PhD


Medical School
National University of Colombia, School of Medicine

Graduate School
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Post-Doctoral Research Training
Max-Planck Institute for Infection Biology

Pediatrics Residency
Sinai Hospital Baltimore

Pediatrics Infectious Disease Fellowship
Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center, University of Washington

Appointment: July, 2006

Clinical Interests

  • Primary interest in the evaluation and management of pediatric patients affected by overwhelming or uncommon infectious diseases.
  • Special interest in the diagnosis, control, and prevention of bacterial diarrheal diseases and tropical infectious diseases.

Research Interests

  • Development of molecular epidemiology tools for rapid and affordable diagnosis of diarrheogenic E. coli strains from stool samples of children with diarrhea in developing countries.
  • Characterization of fimbrial adherence factors of enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC).
  • Identification of chromosomally-encoded factors involved in the pathogenesis of ETEC diarrheal disease.
  • Development of attenuated-bacterial live vaccines and protein-based vaccines against ETEC traveler's and infant diarrhea.

E-mail: oggomez@uiowa.edu

Research Profile

Oscar G. Gomez MD, PhD


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