National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
10 Center Drive, MSC 1882
Infectious Diseases Training Program Building 10, Room 11C304
Bethesda, MD 20892

Phone: 301 496 3461
Fax: 301 480 0050
Website: http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/labs/training/basicclinicaltraining/ID.htm
Email: tpalmore@niaid.nih.gov

Training Program Director

Tara Palmore MD

Research Interests: Immunodeficiencies, hospital epidemiology

Participating Hospitals

NIH Clinical Research Center : 242
Johns Hopkins Hospital : 860
Georgetown University Hospital : 350
Washington Hospital Center : 925

Program Training Offerings

How does this program meet the ABIM requirements for training in clinical microbiology?

Didactic Lectures
Hands-on Experience

The Program provides training in hospital epidemiology through:

Didactic Lectures
Continuity Clinic

The Program provides clinical experience for fellows in the following:

Infections in marrow transplant
Infections in solid organ transplant patients
Infections in travelers and tropical medicine

This Program provides training in STD management through:

Didactic Lectures
Attendance at STD Clinic

The Program has a didactic lecture course for fellows:

Yes

If yes, what is the average number of lectures provided over a two-year period?

100

Training is for:

Are there citizenship requirements?

Types of visas accepted:

Number of fellows accepted each year:

Duration of the Fellowship (years):

The Program has a training grant (T32):

Average number of infectious diseases consults per trainee per year:

400

Number of Fellows completing the Program in the last 5 years:

Additional Training/Faculty Resources (optional):

Applications accepted via Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS®)?

Timeframe when applications are accepted:

Timeframe when interviews are done

John E. Bennett , MD

Research Interests: Basic & Clinical Mycology

Faculty

Jeffrey Cohen , MD

Research Interests: Pathogenesis of Epstein-Barr virus, varicella-zoster

John Gallin , MD

Research Interests: mechanisms of protection against microbial infection, physiology and molecular biology of phagocytic cell function, and development of therapeutic strategies for patients with genetic defects in these processes

Barney Graham , MD

Research Interests: Vaccine Technology

Amy Klion , MD

Research Interests: Parasitology, eosinophilia, hypereosinophilic syndrome

Clifford Lane , MD

Research Interests: Clinical research efforts against AIDS; immunopathogenesis of HIV infection and HIV vaccine development

Harry Malech , MD

Research Interests: Phagocytic cell function in patients with immune deficiency disorders and recurrent infections, gene transfer to develop therapies to correct these abnormalities

Henry Masur , MD , Sr. Investigator

Research Interests: Opportunistic infections that complicate HIV infection

JoAnn Mican , MD

Research Interests: Clinical HIV/AIDS, adverse effects of ARV's, syphilis, CNS lymphoma

Phil Murphy , MD

Research Interests: Chemokine receptors and cell signalling

Tom Nutman , MD

Research Interests: Immunopathogenesis of filariasis

Irini Sereti , MD

Research Interests: Immunopathogenesis of HIV/AIDS, Immune-based therapies

Steven Straus , MD

Research Interests: Immunopathogenesis of Herpes simplex virus and Herpes zoster virus

Frank Maldarelli , MD

Research Interests: HIV drug resistance

Tom Walsh , MD

Research Interests: Diagnosis and treatment of mycoses in the immunocompromised patient

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