Chad received his B.S. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from the University of Vermont in 1998. He earned his Ph.D. in the Fischetti Laboratory at Rockefeller University in 2010 and performed his postdoctoral research at Rockefeller until he became an Assistant Professor at Hunter College, CUNY. Now a tenured Associate Professor and Guest Investigator in the Fischetti lab. His research interests include the involvement of lysogenic bacteriophages in the pathogenesis of S. pyogenes infections, animal models of bacterial infection and bacteriophage lysin treatment, and understanding the causes of rheumatic fever after streptococcal infection.