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Assistant Professor
Washington University in St. Louis
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Andrej Spec earned his MD at the University of Illinois in Chicago and did his internal medicine training at Rush University Medical Center. He came to Washington University in St Louis for his fellowship, and concomitantly earned his Masters of Science in Clinical Investigation. He stayed on as faculty, where he focused his research and clinical work on invasive fungal infections. He is currently an Associate Professor at Washington University in St Louis, where he also serves as the Associate Director of the Infectious Disease Clinical Research Unit and the Medical Director of the Invasive Mycoses Clinic. He has authored over 60 scientific papers and several book chapters on the topic of infectious disease, focusing on invasive fungal infections. He also serves as the Interim Co-Editor-in-Chief for Open Forum Infectious Disease and was recently an Associate Editor for the journals Mycoses and Medical Mycology. Dr. Spec was elected as a Fellow by the European Confederation of Medical Mycologists and Infectious Disease Society of America in 2019, and 2021, respectively. Finally, he is the developer and lead editor of the Comprehensive Review of Infectious Disease, a bestselling Infectious Disease textbook with a focus on teaching ID and preparing readers for ID boards.