Dr. Thomas J. Walsh serves as Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Microbiology & Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University. He brings to this book more than three decades of experience in the field of medical mycology, with clinical and laboratory expertise across a wide spectrum of medically important fungi and mycoses. Dr. Randall T. Hayden is Director of Clinical Pathology Laboratories and Director of Clinical and Molecular Microbiology and Member in the Department of Pathology at St.
Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. His research interests focus on the ap lication of molecular methods to diagnostic challenges in clinical microbiology, with particular emphasis on the diagnosis of infections in the immunocompromised host. Dr. Devise H. Larone is Professor Emerita in the Department of Clinical ethology and Laboratory Medicine and also the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immuno ogy at Weill Cornell Medical College.
She has been perfecting the content of Medically Important F ngi since its first edition in 1975.