Faculty & Staff

Thomas M. Hooton, M.D.
Associate Dean and Professor,
Medical Director, Institute for Women's Health

Dr. Hooton joined the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in June of 2006, having previously been at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine since 1984. For 15 years, he was medical director of the Harborview Medical Center HIV/AIDS clinic, a large academic HIV/AIDS clinic which is the main HIV/AIDS teaching site at UW. In this role, he was responsible for the clinical care and teaching activities of over 50 physicians who worked in the clinic. Dr. Hooton was also the hospital epidemiologist at Harborview Medical Center and chairman of the infection control committee for 11 years and chair of the P & T infectious disease subcommittee for 20 years.

Dr. Hooton has a strong scientific background and his principal research focus has been to better understand the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and treatment of urinary tract infection (UTI) in healthy young women. At UW, he had significant National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to investigate:

• The pathogenesis of UTI in healthy women in an interdisciplinary collaboration with basic scientists at Washington University as part of an NIH Specialized Centers of Significance (SCOR) grant funded by the Office of Research in Women’s Health and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK); and,
• The genetic characteristics of the host in an interdisciplinary collaboration with geneticists at UW in a Program Project grant funded by NIDDK.

Dr. Hooton was the principal investigator on the clinical projects for both of these studies before he came to the University of Miami. He continues to work with the clinical researchers at UW and basic scientists at Washington University on these projects.
Dr. Hooton has authored or co-authored over 100 peer reviewed journal articles and numerous other articles, book chapters, and abstracts in the fields of UTI, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS and co-authored a textbook on HIV/AIDS.

As the Director of the Institute for Women’s Health (IWH), Dr. Hooton is continuing his research in the field of UTI and sexually transmitted infections. The IWH is also working with other investigators at the university to foster research in different areas of women’s health including HPV in HIV-infected patients, pregnancy-associated diabetes, menopause, and other areas.

Erin N. Marcus, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.
Associate Medical Director, Institute for Women's Health

Dr. Marcus is an associate professor of clinical medicine in the division of general internal medicine and associate medical director of the Institute for Women’s Health. She directs the population health segment of the UMMSM doctoring course as well as the institute’s pathway in women’s health for UMMSM medical students. She also precepts residents at the first year women’s comprehensive clinic. Dr. Marcus’ research interests are health communication, health literacy, and patient adherence to screening protocols. She is currently studying how mammography centers communicate with patients about their screening test results. Dr. Marcus is a former journalist and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) mass media fellow, and her writing has appeared in the Perspective section of the New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Miami Herald. She has served as an author of numerous academic publications, including a chapter on “Principles of Women’s Medicine” in Kelley’s Textbook of Internal Medicine.