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FACULTY Department Members By Category Laboratories Faculty Robert Salata, MD Chief Donald Anthony, MD, PhD Keith Armitage, MD Eric Arts, PhD David Bobak, MD Robert Bonomo, MD W. Henry Boom, MD David Canaday, MD Michael Cho, PhD Curtis Donskey, MD Scott Fulton, MD Yong Gao, MD, PhD Barbara Gripshover, MD Marion Helfand, MD Christina Hirsch, MD Marta Jakubowycz, MD Wei Jiang, MD John L Johnson, MD Michael Lederman, MD Tracy Lemonovich, MD Michelle Lisgaris, MD Amy Ray, MD Louis Rice, MD Benigno, Rodriguez, MD Roxana Rojas, MD Scott Sieg, PhD Richard Silver, MD Usha Stiefel, MD Zahra Toossi, MD Gopal Yadavalli, MD Research Staff Administrative Staff SEARCH: RELATED SITES:	David Bobak, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Associate Director Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine Fellowship Program Director, Traveler's HealthCare Center University Hospitals of Cleveland Phone: (216) 844-2085 Fax: (216) 844-1632 E-mail: dab39@case.edu Education MD- Ohio State University, 1980 Residency -Duke University Medical Center, 1983 Fellowship- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 1987 Research My research interests focus on clinical and translational research directed at understanding interactions between microbes and the host immune response. My clinical research interests include Clostridium difficile infection, hepatitis C, and emerging infections in transplant recipients. I am also developing collaborative translational research projects, relevant examples include: 1) utility of noninvasive markers of disease progression and response to therapy in patients with hepatitis C and 2) examining new molecular assays for early diagnosis of invasive fungal infections in transplant recipients. Selected References: • Jefferson, K. K., Smith, M. F., and Bobak, D. A. Roles of intracellular calcium and NF-kB in the Clostridium difficile toxin A-induced up-regulation and secretion of IL-8 by human monocytes J. Immunol. 163:5183-5191, 1999. • Bobak, D. A. and Yadavalli, G. Update on the management of hepatitis C in liver transplant patients. Curr. Infect. Dis. Reports 4:105-111, 2002. • Bobak, D. A. Gastrointestinal infections caused by cytomegalovirus. Curr. Infect. Dis. Reports 5:101, 2003. • Guerrant, R. L. and Bobak, D. A. Nausea, vomiting, and non-inflammatory diarrhea, in Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 6th edition, Mandell, G. L., Bennett, J. E., and Dolin, R. eds., Churchill Livingstone, New York, in press


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