PROGRAM DIRECTORS Dale Morse, MD, MS Director, Office of Science and Public Health, NYSDOH Professor, Department of Epidemiology, SPH-UAlbany Interests: Epidemiology of TB, AIDS, STD foodborne diseases Jack DeHovitz, MD, MPH Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health and Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, SUNY Downstate Medical Center Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology, SPH-UAlbany Interests: Epidemiology and natural history of HIV disease Faculty holding appointments at Wadsworth Center/NYSDOH and/or SPH in Albany David Anders, PhD Research Scientist Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences Interests: Molecular biology and pathogenesis of human herpes viruses/cytomegalovirus Marlene Belfort, PhD Director, Division of Genetic Disorders Professor, Biomedical Sciences Interests: Investigate the mechanism of action of gene applied to the prevention, disease and treatment Kristen Bernard DVM, PhD Research Scientist, Arboviral Pathogenesis Laboratory Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences Interests: Pathogenesis of arboviruses Harold Burger, PhD, MD Co-Director, HIV Research Laboratory Professor of Medicine, Albany Medical College Interests: Viral and molecular determinants of HIV pathogenesis mother-to- child HIV transmission; rates of individuals Sudah Chatuverdi, PhD Research Scientist, Fungal Diseases Laboratory Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences Interests: Protein trafficking, fungal and molecular epidemiology Vishnu Chaturvedi, PhD Director, Fungal Diseases Laboratory Interests: Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences Unique fungal metabolites, fungal-phagocyte interactions, molecular epidemiology Keith Derbyshire, PhD Research Scientist, Mycobacterial Disease Laboratory Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences Interests: DNA rearrangements and recombination in mycobacteria Jan Keithly, PhD Chief, Laboratory of Fungal and Parasitic Disease Associate Professor, Biomedical Science Interests: Drug discovery against parasites; biochemistry and molecular biology of parasite metabolic pathways Laura Kramer, PhD Director, Arbovirus Laboratory Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences Interests: Epidemiology, ecology, biology of vector-borne diseases; viral evolution David Lawrence, PhD Chief, Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Endocrinology and Immunology Professor, Biomedical Sciences Interests: Infection-induced sickness behavior and role of cytokines and environmental agents; balance between resistance to infections and autoimmune diseases Ron Limberger, PhD Chief, Laboratory for Bacterial Disease Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences Interests: Basic and applied aspects of STD’s Paul Masters, PhD Chief, Laboratory of Viral Diseases Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences Interests: Assembly, replication and pathogenesis of coronaviruses Kathleen McDonough, PhD Research Scientist, Bacterial Pathogenesis Laboratory Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences Interests: Pathogenesis of tuberculosis and plague Monica Parker, PhD Director, Viral Genotyping/Pathogenomics Laboratory Interests: Prevalence and analysis of drug resistance in HIV and HCF methodologies for detecting genetic variation in viral pathogens Arlene Ramsingh, PhD Research Scientist, Coxsackie Laboratory Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences Interests: Pathogenesis of coxsackievirus infections Max Salfinger, MD Director, Clinical Mycobacteriology Laboratory; Professor, Biomedical Sciences Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Albany Medical College Interests: Tuberculosis Pei-Yong Shi, PhD Research Scientist, West Nile Virus Replication Laboratory Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences Interests: Replication, packaging and pathogenesis of flaviviruses Kirsten St. George Director, Viral Reference and Surveillance and Viral Genotyping Interests: Antiviral drug resistance; viral evolution impact of new technologies in clinical testing on public health Harry Taber, PhD Director, Division of Infectious Disease Professor, Biomedical Sciences Interests: Tuberculosis Charles Trimarchi, MS Chief, Laboratories for Zoonotic Diseases and Clinical Virology Interests: Rabies diagnostic methods; rabies epizootiology bat rabies; wildlife rabies control Barbara Weiser, MD Co-Director, HIV Research Laboratory; Professor of Medicine, Albany Medical College Interests: Viral and molecular determinants of HIV pathogenesis mother-to-child HIV transmission rates of disease progression in infected individuals Faculty holding joint appointments in the Division of Epidemiology/NYSDOH and SPH in Albany Guthrie Birkhead, MD, MPH Director, Center for Community Health and AIDS Institute Associate Professor, Epidemiology Interests: HIV/AIDS emerging infections Bruce Coles, DO Director, Bureau of STD Control Assistant Professor, Epidemiology Interests: Congenital syphilis, HIV seroprevalence and Chlamydia infection Marilyn Kacica, MD, MPH Medical Director, Regional Epidemiology and Infection Control Program Professor of Epidemiology Interests: Infectious disease epidemiology emerging infections hepatitis, neonatal infections Louise-Anne McNutt, PhD Assistant Professor, Epidemiology Infectious disease epidemiology, quantitative methods Perry Smith, MD Director, Division of Epidemiology Assistant Professor, Epidemiology Interests: NYSDOH infectious disease control activities Rachel Stricof, MPH Research Scientist; Assistant Professor, Epidemiology Interests: TB and nosocomially control measures in health care facilities Margaret Oxtoby, MD Director, Bureau of TB Control Interests: TB epidemiology and control activities Barbara Wallace, MD, MPH Director, Bureau of Communicable Disease Control Assistant Professor, Epidemiology Interests: General infectious disease activities Dennis White, PhD Director, Arthropod-Borne Disease Program; Associate Professor, Epidemiology Interests: Tick-borne diseases Faculty at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn Michael Augenbraun, MD Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine/Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health Interests: Infection control, Hepatitis C transmission, STD control Jeffrey Birnbaum, MD Director of Adolescent Services Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine Interests: HIV infected youth and high risk youth Susan Holman, MS Assistant Clinical Professor, Preventive Medicine and Community Health Interests: HIV prevention, Women’s Health Sheldon Landesman, MD Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Perinatal transmission of Medicine Chief, Infectious Diseases Brookdale University Interests: HIV control measures in health Hospital and TB care facilities William McCormack, MD Chief, Infectious Diseases; Professor, Department of Medicine Interests: STD diagnosis, treatment and epidemiology Howard Minkoff, MD Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Chairman, Obstetrics and Gynecology Maimonides Medical Center Interests: Natural history of HIV infection in women and perinatal transmission of HIV Anjali Sharma, MD, MS Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Interests: Infectious Diseases Scyatta Wallace, PhD Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine and Community Health Interests: Culturally competent HIV prevention Tracey Wilson, PhD Associate Professor Interests: Behavioral intervention to reduce HIV Risk Faculty at the New York Blood Center in New York City Richard J. Davey, MD Vice-President and Chief Medical Officer Interests: Transfusion Medicine Kathleen Grima, MD Medical Director of Clinical Services Interests: Transfusion Medicine Jessica Lynn Jacobson, MD Assistant Medical Director, NY Blood Services Interests: Transfusion Medicine Jay E. Valinsky, PhD Vice-President, Information and Technology Interests: Prevention of HIV/HCV transfusion-transmision Faculty at the National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. (NDRI) in New York City Don C. DesJarlais, PhD Director of Research, Chemical Dependency Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center; Professor of Epidemiology, Albert Einstein college of Medicine; Director of International Core, NDRI Interests: Interventions to prevent IDU- mediated HIV transmission Sherry Deren, PhD Director, Center for Drug Use and HIV Research & Institute for AIDS Research Interests: HIV risk behavior and drug use Holly Hagan, PhD, RN Deputy Director, Center for Drug Use and HIV Research; Clinical Assistant Professor, Epidemiology Interests: Injection drug use and hepatitis transmission |
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