Webinar: The role of TB infection in TB elimination
The Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health in conjunction with Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery–Dubai will host a webinar, The role of TB infection in TB elimination on 27 September 2017 at 10:30 – 12:00 PM EDT.
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Speaker: Richard Chaisson, MD
Richard E. Chaisson, MD is Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and International Health and directs the Center for AIDS Research and the Center for Tuberculosis Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD, USA. He received his BS and MD degrees from the University of Massachusetts and trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and clinical epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco. From 1988-1998 he led the Johns Hopkins AIDS Service, a clinical program providing care to >3500 people with HIV and conducted research on the natural history and treatment of the disease. He was Medical Director of the Baltimore City Health Department’s Tuberculosis Control Program from 1992-1998. In 1998 he founded the Johns Hopkins Center for TB Research, a multidisciplinary institute dedicated to the study of TB from bench to bedside to community. His research interests focus on tuberculosis and HIV infection, including epidemiology and natural history, clinical trials, diagnostics and public health interventions. He has been a Principal Investigator in the CDC’s TB Trials Consortium since its inception in 1994. From 2002-2014 he organized and led the Consortium to Respond to the AIDS-TB Epidemic (CREATE), a Gates Foundation-sponsored research consortium studying novel public health approaches to reduce the burden of HIV-related TB. Since 2011 Dr. Chaisson has served as Chair of the TB Transformative Science Group of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group. In 2012 he reestablished the Johns Hopkins CFAR, revitalizing a multidisciplinary program to catalyze innovative HIV research, with a special focus on combatting the Baltimore epidemic. He co-chairs the South African Regional Prospective Observational Research on TB (RePORT) Consortium Steering Committee. Dr. Chaisson has published over 490 scientific papers and chapters, and his Handbook of Tuberculosis, co-edited with Jacques Grosset, was published in 2017.
