Fred Arthur Zar, MD, FACP

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency
Vice Head of Education, Department of Medicine
Chief, Inpatient Medical Service, University of Illinois Hospital
Director, M2 Clinical Pathophysiology Course

University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Medicine (MC 718)
College of Medicine
840 South Wood, Room 440 CSN
Chicago, IL 60612-7323
Phone 312-996-0555
FAX 312-413-1343
fazar@uic.edu

Dr. Zar received is MD with honors at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency in Internal Medicine at Illinois Masonic Hospital followed by a Research Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been an infectious disease consultant for 20 years and is in his 15 th year as an Internal Medicine Residency Program Director.

Currently Dr. Zar is an Infectious Disease Consultatnt and Firm Chief at the University of Illinois Medical Center. He is the Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency at the University as well as Course Director of the M2 Clinical Pathophysiology Course at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago.

His research interests include HIV therapy, C. difficile diarrhea and medical education. He has been honored to receive the Clifford Pilz Teaching Attending of the Year award for 2003 and 2004.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Darwish, Y., Mushannen, B., Hussain, K.M.A., Nititham, K., Dadkhah, S., Atkinson, J., Zar, F., Kogan, A.: Pancardiac tuberculosis. Angiology 49:151–6, 1998.
• Zar, F.A., El-Bayoumi E., Yungbluth, M.M.: Histologic Proof of Acalculous Cholecystitis due to Cyclospora cayatanensis. Clin Infect Dis 15:33:E140–1, 2001.
• Moorthi, K., Radhakrishnan, P., Zar, F.A.: Purulent pericarditis and cardiac tamponaade caused by Staphylococcus aureus urosepsis. J Gen Intern Med 17(S1): 58–9, 2002.
• Radhakrishnan, P., Zar, F.A., Moorthi K: An unusual case of calciphylaxis in an immunocompromised patient. J Gen Intern Med 17(S1): 63–4, 2002.
• Radhakrishnan, P., Lingegowda, V., Molagavalli, V., Zouras, W., Zar, F.A.: Positive PPD test in health–care workers (HCW): A study of the compliance of antibiotic prophylaxis. J Gen Intern Med 17(S1): 209, 2002.