He will lead the ID fellowship program. Brito will have a joint appointment in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology and a clinical appointment at Hines. Brito received his medical degree from the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo School of Medicine and completed a residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital and ID fellowship at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. He received his MPH in epidemiology from the University of Illinois. He was medical director of HIV/AIDS at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh before joining UIC in 2004.