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(Find agenda below.) Please plan to join us as we highlight the impressive and impactful work of our trainees in the U.S. and around the globe! Presented by the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, this symposium will feature global health research from MD/PhD … Read more
Dr. Melissa Conrad has a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from NYU School of Medicine, where she studied the population genomics of Trichomonas vaginalis. She did her postdoc at UCSF, focusing on the molecular epidemiology of antimalarial drug resistance in Uganda. As faculty at UCSF, she is working to characterize emerging artemisinin combination therapy resistance in … Read more
Peyton Thompson, MD, MSCR, is an Assistant Professor and Fellowship Program Director of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her B.A. from Princeton University, where she majored in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and minored in Medical Spanish. She received her M.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she … Read more
Jose Munita, MD is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Director of International Research, Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Genomics (CARMiG), UTHealth, Houston, TX. His ESI grant supports VENOUS, which is a prospective, multi-site observational cohort study to evaluate the outcomes of patients with bloodstream infections due to vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). In addition, parallel collection … Read more
Dr. Olson is an Associate Professor in the Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine with secondary appointments in the Colorado School of Public Health and CU School of Engineering. His research focuses on measuring the clinical and socioeconomic impact of emerging infectious diseases in resource-limited settings and evaluating … Read more
Dr. Joe Eron is a Professor of Medicine in the Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Eron is the Principal Investigator of the HIV/AIDS Clinical Research Unit at UNC-CH and the Director of the Clinical Core for the UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). He has been part of the AIDS Clinical Trials … Read more
Preeti N. Malani, MD, MSJ is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases. In addition, Dr. Malani is Deputy Editor and Director of Editorial Equity for JAMA and the JAMA Network. From 2017 to 2022, she served as the University of Michigan’s Chief Health Officer. As Chief Health Officer, Dr. Malani worked … Read more
Brian Conlon is an Associate Professor. Antibiotic tolerance and antibiotic resistance are major challenges, resulting in growing numbers of deaths worldwide each year. The Conlon Lab focuses on antibiotic tolerance and resistance in the infection microenvironment. Here, nutrient availability, interactions between the pathogen and the host, as well as co-infecting or commensal microorganisms, can have … Read more
