He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also completed a fellowship at the University of Minnesota in Infectious Diseases. He is fluent in Spanish and has international experience in Ethiopia, India, and Ecuador.Honors, Awards, Organizations Infectious Diseases Society of AmericaAmerican College of PhysiciansSelected Recent PublicationsPereira EC, Shaw KM, Snippes Vagnone PM, Harper JE, Lynfield R. A review of multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. Minnesota Medicine October 2011Pereira EC. Appropriateness or time? Critical Care Medicine 2011;39(4):923Grim SA, Pereira E, Guzman G, Clark NM. CMV PCR as a diagnostic tool for CMV gastrointestinal disease after solid organ transplantation. Transplantation 2010;90(7):799-801