José Gilberto Montoya

José Gilberto Montoya is an associate professor in Infectious Diseases at Stanford University. He has worked on a wide variety of projects in this field including research focused on the efficacy of new smallpox vaccines. Additionally, he is the founder and co-director of the Immunocompromised Host Service and works at the Positive Care Clinic at Stanford. He is originally from Cali, Colombia.

Montoya received a medical degree with honors from University of Valle.

He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Tulane University. Montoya then completed his post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University.

Montoya specializes in toxoplasmosis and infectious diseases particularly as it pertains to cardiac transplants and AIDS patients. Montoya is also the recipient of many Stanford teaching awards,including the Bloomfield, Ebaugh, Kaiser and Rytand awards. He is also noted for his research into the use of valganciclovir as a treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome.