Rama Thyagarajan, MD

Rama Thyagarajan, MD, is an Infectious Diseases Physician with special clinical interest and expertise in Infection Prevention and antimicrobial stewardship. She is currently the Physician lead for Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial stewardship at Dell Seton Medical Center at University of Texas at Austin (a role she’s held since 2019). She was previously the Corporate Medical Director of Infection Prevention at Beaumont Health, the largest multi hospital health system in Southeast Michigan.

Catherine Passaretti, MD

Catherine Passaretti, MD, completed medical school, internal medicine and infectious disease training at Johns Hopkins. She currently is Vice President, Chief Epidemiologist for Atrium Health and is a Clinical Professor in Internal Medicine, Section for Infectious Diseases at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

Jeffrey Fetter, MD

Jeffrey Fetter, MD, is a board-certified internist and psychiatrist, and is the chief medical officer of New Hampshire Hospital, the only state hospital in New Hampshire. He is an assistant professor at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and has practiced in community, corrections, and inpatient settings. Earlier this year, the National Alliance on Mental Illness named Dr. Fetter as an Exemplary Psychiatrist, one of only four named in 2023.

Erica Kaufman West, MD

Erica Kaufman West, MD, completed her undergraduate degrees at Valparaiso University in Indiana. She received her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine. She finished her Internal Medicine residency and her chief resident year at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She stayed to complete her fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the West LA VA/Cedars-Sinai/Olive View-UCLA Medical Center program. She has been working in the Midwest since then, focusing on acute inpatient as well as outpatient care in HIV, Hepatitis C and wound care. She now works as the AMA’s Director of Infectious Diseases while maintaining her clinical practice.