Background

• Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Chief, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine 1980 - 2006
  • Secondary Appointment: Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health 1980 - Present

Publications

• > 500 peer-reviewed articles
• 78 non-peer reviewed articles
• 280 chapters, reviews and letters
• 18 books, (67 editions)

Education

• Fellowship: UCLA School of Medicine and Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital, Los Angeles, California 1968-70
• Residency: University of Alabama, Birmingham 1967-68
• Residency: Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 1963-65
• Medical School: Upstate Medical Center School of Medicine in Syracuse, New York 1959-63
• Undergraduate: Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, graduated in 1959

Societies

• Anaerobe Society of America - Council
• Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Association of Subspecialty Professors
• American Medical Writers Association
• American College of Physicians - Fellow
• Association of American Physicians
• American Association for the Advancement of Science - Fellow
• Infectious Diseases Society of America - past President
• Peruvian Society of Internal Medicine
• American Society for Clinical Investigation
• Institute of Medicine

Editorial Boards

• Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice Editor
• The Hopkins HIV Report Editor
• European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
• Anaerobe
• Clinical Infectious Diseases
• Medicine - Associate Editor
• Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
• American Journal of Medicine
• Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
• Journal of Clinical Illness
• Microecology and Disease

Previous Appointments

• Professor of Medicine, 1980; Associate Professor of Medicine,1975-1980: Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston
• Associate Professor of Medicine, 1975; Assistant Professor of Medicine, 1970-74: UCLA School of Medicine

Research

• HIV/AIDS
• Diarrhea (C. difficile-associated diarrhea and antibiotic-associated diarrhea)
• Pneumonia (community-acquired)
• Anaerobic infections

Disclosures

None