PAUSE Seminar: Translating V. Cholerae Immunology: Finding “MAITs” for B cells, and Informing Sero-Epidemiology

Daniel T. Leung, MD, MSC, is a Professor of Internal Medicine (Infectious Disease) and the Dr. Thomas D. Rees and Natalie B. Rees Presidential Endowed Chair in Global Medicine at the University of Utah. A native of Hong Kong, Daniel received his BSc and MSc from the University of British Columbia, and an MD from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington, and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School. From 2010 to 2014, Daniel lived in Dhaka, Bangladesh, working on immunology of cholera as a joint research fellow of Massachusetts General Hospital and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). He sees patients at the University of Utah International Travel Clinic, is the Utah site director of the GeoSentinel surveillance network for travel-related illnesses, and currently serves as the President of the Clinical Group of the ASTMH. His group’s research focuses on the immunology, microbiology, epidemiology, and clinical management of mucosal infections, especially those impacting the health of people living in low- and middle-income countries.