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 Henry F. "Chip" Chambers, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, SFGH
Director, UCSF Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program
hchambers@medsfgh.ucsf.edu
Mailing Address:
Room 3400, Building 30
Division of Infectious Diseases
San Francisco General Hospital
1001 Potrero Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94110
Office Location:
Room 3400, SFGH
Research Interests:
Antimicrobial resistance; genetics, molecular basis, and epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Stahylococcus aureus; staphylococcal infections, tuberculosis
Select Publications:
Zhang H-Z, Hackbarth CJ, Chansky K, Chambers HF. A proteolytic transmembrane signaling pathway and resistance to beta-lactams in staphylococci. Science 291:1962-65, 2001.
Moore MR, Perdreau-Remington F, Chambers HF. vancomycin treatment failure associated with heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus in a patient with endocarditis and in the rabbit model of endocarditis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 47:1262-6, 2003.
Liu C. and Chambers HF. Staphylococcus aureus with heterogeneous resistance to vancomycin: Epidemiology, clinical significance, and critical assessment of diagnostic methods. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 47:3040-45, 2003.
Katayama, Y, Zhang, H-Z, Chambers, HF. Mutations of PBP 2a producing very high level resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 48:453-9, 2004.
Charlebois ED, Perdreau-Remington F, Kreiswirth B, Bangsberg D, Ciccarone D, Diep BA, Chansky K, Edlin B, Chambers HF. Origins of community strains of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Clin Infect Dis 39:47-54, 2004.
Katayama Y, Robinson DA, Enright MC, Chambers, HF. Genetic background affects stability of mecA in Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Micro 43:2380-2383, 2005.
Education and Training:
B.S., Centre College, Danville, KY, 1973
M.D., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 1977
Internal Medicine Residency, University of California, San Francisco 1977-1980
Infectious Disease Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 1986-1990
Chief Residency, Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital/ University of California, 1980-81
Fellowship, General Medicine and Infections Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, 1981-84
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