New York State International Training & Research Program

Dale Morse, MD, MS
Assistant Commissioner, Office of Science, NYS Department of Health
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, SPH-UAlbany
Interests: Epidemiology of TB, AIDS, STDs, and foodborne diseases

Jack DeHovitz, MD, MPH
Professor, 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

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 and treatment of disease

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 disease progression in infected individuals

Sudha Chatuverdi, PhD
Research Scientist, Fungal Diseases Laboratory
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Interests: Protein trafficking, fungal pathogenesis, and molecular epidemiology

Vishnu Chaturvedi, PhD
Director, Fungal Diseases Laboratory
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Interests: Unique fungal metabolites, fungal-phagocyte interactions, molecular epidemiology

Keith Derbyshire, PhD
Research Scientist, Mycobacterial Disease Laboratory
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 of Bacterial Diseases
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Interests: Basic and applied aspects of STDs

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
Associate 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
Chief, Bureau of Laboratories, Florida Department of Health
Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Albany Medical College
Interests: Tuberculosis

Pei-Yong Shi, PhD
Research Scientist, West Nile Virus Replication Laboratory
Associate 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

Norma Tavakoli, PhD
Director, Viral Encephalitis Laboratory
Interests: Detection of agents that cause encephalitis/meningitis

Charles Trimarchi, MS
Chief, Laboratories for Zoonotic Diseases and Clinical Virology
Interests: Rabies diagnostic methods; rabies epizootiology; bat rabies; wildlife rabies control

Wayne Triner , DO, MPH, FACEP
Department of Emergency Medicine, Albany Medical College
Interests: Ethics in emergency medicine research

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

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

Louise-Anne McNutt, PhD
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Infectious disease epidemiology, quantitative methods

Margaret Oxtoby , MD
Director, Bureau of TB Control
Interests: TB epidemiology and control activities

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 nosocomial control measures in health care facilities

P. Clay Stephens
Director, Prevention Science and Applied Epidemiology
Division of HIV Prevention, AIDS Institute
Interests: Harm reduction

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

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

Brian Edlin, MD
Visiting Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health
Interests: Epidemiology of HCV infection in IDUs

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 Medicine
Assistant Dean, Clinical Medical Education
Interests: Perinatal transmission of HIV; control measures in hospitals 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; HIV infections in IDUs

Tracey Wilson, PhD
Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine and Community Health
Interests: Behavioral intervention to reduce HIV Risk

Vislam Chandrasekaran, MD
Vice President, Medical Operations
Interests: Transfusion medicine, medical education programs

Robert Reiss, MD
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Interests: Transfusion medicine

Jay E. Valinsky, PhD
Vice President, Information and Technology
Interests: Prevention of HIV/HCV transfusion-transmision, blood safety

Sherry Deren, PhD
Director, Center for Drug Use and HIV Research & Institute for AIDS Research
Interests: HIV risk behavior and drug use

Don C. DesJarlais, PhD
Director of Research, Chemical Dependency Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center
Professor of Epidemiology, Albert Einstein college of Medicine
Interests: Interventions to prevent IDU-mediated HIV transmission

Holly Hagan, PhD, RN
Deputy Director, Center for Drug Use and HIV Research
Interests: Injection drug use and hepatitis transmission