Wellstar Infectious Disease

Huggett completed her undergraduate, medical school and residency training in West Virginia. She then completed her fellowship training in Columbia, S.C., before moving to Augusta to practice medicine. She serves as assistant professor within the division of Infectious Diseases in the department of Medicine at Medical College of Georgia.

Dr. Vazquez is chief of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Wellstar, affiliated with Medical College of Georgia, and chair of the Institutional Review Board at Augusta University. Prior to this he was professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine and senior staff physician at Henry Ford Hospital and Health System, both in Detroit. Dr. Vazquez earned his medical degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in Santiago, Dominican Republic. He completed his internship and internal medicine residency at Chicago Medical School in North Chicago. Thereafter, he completed an infectious diseases fellowship at Wayne State University School of Medicine and is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases. Dr. Vazquez is a member of several professional societies and is a co-principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health grant evaluating the oral microbiome of HIV-positive subjects. He has extensively written about various infectious disease topics, especially mycology.

Dr. Askar is assistant professor of medicine in the division of Infectious Diseases at Medical College of Georgia. She attended medical school at the Faculty of Medicine at Damascus University in Syria and completed her internship and residency at American University of Beirut in Lebanon. She moved to Augusta to pursue a fellowship at Medical College of Georgia. Her clinical interests include bacterial infections, HIV and stewardship, while her research interests include HIV and staphylococcus aureus.