Thomas A. Russo is expert in infectious diseases, and I care for hospitalized patients at the Buffalo VA Medical Center (Buffalo VAMC). His research focuses on Gram-negative bacilli (GNB), including Escherichia coli, Acinetobacter baumannii and a new hypervirulent variant of Klebsiella pneumoniae.

 He teach first- and second-year medical students in lecture settings and small group sessions, including courses in lung respiration, musculoskeletal, renal and microbiology-immunology. Residents attend my grand rounds; I also teach fellows in all aspects of their training and mentor those who perform their research projects in my lab.

 Education and Training: Executive Development in Health Care Management, Management, University at Buffalo School of Management (2015), Fellowship, Infectious Disease, Tufts-New England Medical Center (1988), Residency, Medicine, Harvard-New England Deaconess Hospital (1985), MD, CM, McGill University (1982). Awards and Honors: Stockton Kimball Award (2017), University at Buffalo Exceptional Scholar Sustained Achievement Award (2012), Visionary Inventor: UB technology licensed to Zeptometrix Corp. (2009), Top 100 Principal Investigators at the University at Buffalo (2005). His activities Faculty Senate; Member (2009), Faculty Mentoring Committee; Members advise junior faculty on their academic career; Committee Member (2017–present), Faculty Council; Governance body for the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; President (2016–2017).He intermittently have students in my lab, and he participate in a grant designed to encourage medical students to become physician-scientists.

Infectious Diseases; Microbial Pathogenesis