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
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