Jerry Zifodya, MD, MPH, TM
Associate Professor
Education & Affiliations
Biography
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.
Tulane Center of Excellence: Sex-Based Biology & Medicine
Contributions
View Dr. Zifodya's publications at his PubMed page.
Awards & Accomplishments
Awarded a Charles and Elizabeth Wetmore Fund Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Jerry Zifodya, Assistant Professor in the Section of Pulmonary, Diseases, Critical Care and Environmental Medicine, he has been awarded a Charles and Elizabeth Wetmore Fund Grant for his work entitled “Post-Tuberculosis Lung Disease: Prevalence and risk factors in a cohort of tuberculosis patients in Region 1, Wetmore tuberculosis clinic New Orleans (PTLD-NO study).” Many tuberculosis survivors remain chronically symptomatic after discharge from tuberculosis treatment clinics. This project will expand on the work that Dr. Zifodya is doing internationally by characterizing lung function impairment and quality of life in survivors of pulmonary tuberculosis in the greater New Orleans area.
Awarded a Firland Foundation Research Grant
Dr. Zifodya has been awarded a Firland Foundation Research Grant for his grant entitled “Host Clinical and Immunological Risk Factors Associated with Post-Tuberculosis Lung Disease (PTLD) among Kenyan and Ugandan Adults.” He aims to identify subtypes of post-tuberculosis lung disease and their associated risk factors. This grant will fund extended programs for ongoing studies in Kenya and Uganda and continue to build capacity at these study sites.
