Poeschla named head of Division of Infectious Diseases

Eric Poeschla has been named head of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine.

Previously, he was a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.

Poeschla also will hold the Tim Gill Endowed Chair in HIV Research.

He is a graduate of Yale Medical School and served an internal residency at the University of California at San Francisco. He also was a member of the Mayo Clinic Departments of Molecular Medicine and Medicine (Infectious Diseases) from 1999-2014.