Dr. Mark Schleiss
Mark R. Schleiss, MD is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Schleiss received his MD degree from the Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, Oregon. He completed his residency at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, Oregon and his Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellowship at Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. He also completed a fellowship in Molecular Medicine studying cytomegalovirus molecular genetics at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington.
His laboratory at the UMN Center for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Translational Research is described at this link.
Dr. Erin Osterholm
Erin A. Osterholm, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Neonatalogy and is Medical Director of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at UMMCH. She received her MD degree at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, and also completed pediatric residency (serving for a year as Chief Resident in Pediatrics), and fellowship training in neonatology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN. She is co-Principal Investigator of a grant with Dr. Schleiss, Longitudinal Assessment of Asymptomatic Congenital CMV Infection in Minnesota Infants Identified by Universal Screening: What is Risk of Sequelae?
Craig Bierle, PhD
Craig J. Bierle, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology. Dr. Bierle received his doctorate in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He heads a research laboratory that studies viral infections of pregnancy, and is an active collaborator with Dr. Schleiss on laboratory-based congenital CMV studies (http://bierle.umn.edu/people/craig-bierle).