Welcome to the UT Division of Infectious Diseases

Our division was founded in the mid 1960s by Dr. Gene Stollerman, then chairman of the Department of Medicine and a leading expert in streptococcal diseases. His first two fellows, Dr. Alan Bisno and the late Dr. Ed Beachey, became respectively the second and third Division Chiefs. These three individuals built the Division into an internationally-recognized research group devoted to the study of bacterial pathogenesis and immunology, particularly group A streptococcal infections, rheumatic fever, and bacterial adherence.