Timothy R. Sterling, M.D., FACP, FIDSA
Director, Vanderbilt Tuberculosis Center
David E. Rogers Professorship
Professor, Adult Infectious Diseases
Professor of Medicine
Suite A 2200
1161 21st Avenue South, Medical Center North
Nashville
Tennessee
37232-2582
(615) 322-2035
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Epidemiology and treatment of tuberculosis and HIV
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Dr. Sterling is an infectious disease physician-scientist with expertise in the epidemiology and treatment of tuberculosis and HIV. Special areas of interest include the treatment of HIV-related tuberculosis, treatment of latent M. tuberculosis infection, abnormalities in the human immune response that predispose to extrapulmonary tuberculosis, and mechanisms of drug-resistant M. tuberculosis, particularly fluoroquinolone resistance. Dr. Sterling has research collaborations in Brazil, Peru, South Africa, and the United States.
