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Joshua Fierer

Joshua Fierer

Credentials: 

  • Board Certified Internal Medicine

  • California Medical License

Current Position(s): 

  • Veterans Administration Medical Center, Chief of Infectious Diseases and of Microbiology Section, Laboratory Service

  • UCSD Professor of Medicine and Pathology in Residence

Personal Statement: 

After medical school, Dr. Fierer did a residency in Internal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and spent two years in the US Public Health Service as an EIS Officer with the Communicable Diseases Center in Atlanta, GA. He started an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the University of Pittsburg in Abraham I. Braude’s laboratory and then moved with him to UCSD in 1969, where Dr. Fierer finished his fellowship. Dr. Fierer was appointed to the faculty and has remained at UCSD ever since. He took a position at the VA when it opened in 1971 and Dr. Fierer is now the Chief of ID at the VA. His research career has focused on host-pathogen relationships and has primarily worked on Salmonella and the fungus Coccidioides, making important discoveries in both areas.

Professional History:

  • University of Pittsburgh, Research Fellow

  • UCSD Research Fellow

  • VAMC, Acting Chief, Infectious Diseases Section

  • UCSD Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology in Residence

  • VAMC, Chief, of Infectious Diseases and of Microbiology Section, Laboratory Service

  • UCSD Professor of Medicine and Pathology in Residence and Chief of infectious Diseases from 1991-2005.

Education:

  • A.B., Columbia College, New York

  • M.D., New York University School of Medicine

  • Other Training, Yale New Haven Hospital

  • Resident, Yale New Haven Hospital

  • Fellow, University of Pittsburgh

  • Fellow, UCSD

Awards and Honors: 

  • Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

  • Fellow of AAAS

  • Member of the Academy of Microbiology

        

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