Jerry Zifodya, MD, MPH, TM

Dr. Jerry Zifodya was raised in Zimbabwe. He first came to New Orleans as a medical student and received his medical degree and a Master’s in Public Health & Tropical Medicine from Tulane. It was during his training that he and his wife fell in love with the city. After medical school he moved to Nashville and completed Internship and Residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. After residency, he then moved to Seattle for clinical and research fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington. Being from Zimbabwe, Dr. Zifodya has always had an interest in global health. As part of his research training he was awarded a Fogarty Global Health Research Fellowship. He spent a year in Kisumu, Kenya engaging in research on the pulmonary and cardiovascular complications of HIV infection and tuberculosis.

Dr. Zifodya continues to be actively engaged in research and his research interests are in chronic communicable and noncommunicable lung disease in a local and global setting. He is focused on chronic pulmonary complications of HIV including chronic sequela of tuberculosis particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. He returned to New Orleans and joined Tulane faculty as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in 2019. He will primarily see inpatients in the medical ICU and pulmonary consult service at the University Medical Center of New Orleans and Tulane University Medical Center.

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