Elizabeth Gulleen, MD

Administrator Info
Name: Admin
Phone: 612-624-9996
Email: idimdivision@umn.edu
Fax: 612-625-4410

Summary:

Dr. Gulleen is a physician-scientist trained in global health, epidemiology, implementation science, and immunocompromised infectious diseases. She has a particular interest in infections that occur in the oncology and hematopoietic stem cell transplant populations. Her research focuses on defining the microbiology of febrile illness among patients receiving cancer treatment in sub-Saharan Africa, with the goal of developing locally relevant infection management guidelines that will decrease infection-related mortality in this patient population. In addition, she uses implementation science to improve the diagnosis and management of infections and build antimicrobial stewardship programs for patients receiving cancer treatment in resource-limited settings. Dr. Gulleen is the PI of a Center for AIDS Research New Investigator Award investigating gastrointestinal colonization with multi-drug resistant bacteria among patients receiving cancer treatment in Uganda. She is also the PI of a study which uses principles of implementation science to identify and address barriers to rapid delivery of guideline-recommended antibiotics for Ugandan patients with neutropenic fever, funded by Fogarty International.

Dr. Gulleen is passionate about working with local clinicians and researchers to build collaborative, multi-disciplinary global health research programs that directly inform patient care. She has longstanding multidisciplinary clinical and research collaborations with colleagues at the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala, Uganda.

Expertise: Transplant Infectious Diseases; Tropical Medicine; Implementation Science; Epidemiology; Global Health