| Biographical
Sketch:
Dr.
Kaslow is Professor of Epidemiology and International Health,
Medicine, and Microbiology in the University of Alabama at
Birmingham Schools of Public Health and Medicine.  He
is clinically trained in internal medicine and in the subspecialty
of infectious diseases. His
spent his early career in the US Public Health Service --
7 years with CDC and 16 years with the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, ultimately as Chief
of the Epidemiology and Biometry Branch. In
1995 he assumed his current position as well as that of Director
of the Program in Epidemiology of Infection and Immunity. He
is also Co-Director of the UAB Clinical Research Training
Program.
His
major research interest has been HIV/AIDS, with a current
emphasis on the genetic determinants of HIV infection. Other
work has spanned the fields of nosocomial infections, autoimmune
diseases, Lyme disease, and hepatitis C. He
has edited two texts: The
Epidemiology of AIDS and Viral
Diseases of Humans. Among
the groups he has served are the Assistant Secretary for
Health's Prevention Task Force, the USPHS Reye Syndrome Task
Force; the National Academy of Sciences - Institute of Medicine
Workshop on The Epidemiology and Disease Burden of AIDS;
and the FDA, Biologic Response Modifiers Advisory Committee,
Xenotransplantation Subcommittee. He
was recently appointed to the DHHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee
on Xenotransplantation. |
