Jose Lucar, MD, is an infectious disease physician and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the GW Medical Faculty Associates.
Dr. Lucar earned his medical degree from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. He completed his internal medicine residency at the Georgetown University Hospital–Washington Hospital Center program in 2014, followed by an infectious diseases fellowship at GW in 2016. After fellowship, he joined the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), where he served as Medical Director of the Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Program and Director of the Bone and Joint Infection Service Line until returning to GW in 2021.
At GW, Dr. Lucar is the Medical Director of GW Hospital’s Antimicrobial Stewardship Program and currently serves as Program Director for the Infectious Diseases Fellowship, where he leads educational initiatives and mentors future infectious disease specialists. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases by the American Board of Internal Medicine. In 2022, he was elected a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (FIDSA), and in 2025, he was recognized as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP).
His clinical and research interests include mycobacterial infections, HIV treatment and prevention, microbial resistance, and emerging infectious diseases.
