Gail Skowron, M.D., is the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Roger Williams Medical Center, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. She also holds an appointment as Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown University School of Medicine and is an Associate Director of the Brown University AIDS Program. She completed her medical training at Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons, her Internal Medicine residency at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City, and her Infectious Disease fellowship training at Stanford University School of Medicine. She established the HIV/AIDS clinical research program and the HIV Immunology Laboratory at Roger Williams Hospital in 1990. She directs the HIV Clinical Practice, which receives Ryan White Title II funding. Clinical research interests include: evaluation of new antiretroviral agents and immune modulators, pharmacokinetic interactions of antiretroviral combination therapy and HIV resistance. She is director of the HIV Immunology Laboratory, which studies the mechanism of CD4 cell depletion in HIV disease, including the evaluation of lymph node and gut-associated lymphoid tissues.

Yoram A. Puius, M.D., Ph.D., joined the RWMC Division of Infectious Diseases in 2007. Dr. Puius completed his medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, before going on to a residency in Internal Medicine at New York Hospital/Cornell. He then began his fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia before completing a final clinical year at Tufts-New England Medical Center. He brings an interest and experience in infections in the immunocompromised host. Dr. Puius is the primary attending physician in the General Infectious Diseases Clinical Practice, which sees patients by referral or in post-hospital discharge follow-up. He also serves as the Medical Director of the hospital's Infection Control Program.

Frederic Silverblatt, M.D.
Dr. Silverblatt trained in the field of Infectious Diseases in Seattle, WA under Dr. Robert Petersdorf and Dr. Marvin Turck. He remained at the University of Washington as a faculty member until he relocated to the University of Tennessee at Memphis where he was hospital epidemiologist for the city of Memphis Hospital. Following his stint in Memphis, he moved to Los Angeles, CA where he was Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Sepulveda VA Hospital and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. In 1986 he became Chief of Medicine at the Providence VA Medical Center and Professor of Medicine at Brown University. His research interests have been in the pathogenesis of urinary tract infections and antibiotic nephrotoxicity. Currently Dr. Silverblatt is in private practice and consulting in Infectious Diseases at several Rhode Island hospitals. He maintains his interest in teaching both at the post-graduate and graduate level as an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Brown.

Lalitha Koduri, M.D.
Dr. Koduri graduated from Siddhartha Medical College, University of Health Sciences, India, and completed her Internal Medicine training at Overlook Hospital, Summit, NewJersey. She completed her Infectious Disease fellowship training at Hahnemann University and Abington Hospitals, Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. She rounds with the fellows on the Inpatient Infectious Disease service. She is in Private Practice and also works as a Infectious Disease consultant at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital.

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