Gorgas Course Faculty

The Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine

Key Faculty

Fifty-four faculty from:

University of Alabama School of Medicine (UAB)
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Tropical Medicine Institute (UPCH)
US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima (NMRCD)
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Guest Faculty from Other Countries

Gorgas Course Directors

David O. Freedman, MD
Director, UAB Travelers Health Clinic
Professor of Medicine
W.C. Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

Eduardo Gotuzzo, MD, FACP
Director, Instituto Medicina Tropical (IMT)
“Alexander von Humboldt”
Principal Professor of Medicine
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH)
Lima, Peru

IMT, UPCH Key Faculty

Carlos Seas, MD, MSc Course Coordinator - Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine	Humberto Guerra, MD, PhD, DrMed Professor of Medicine Past Director, IMT
Martin Montes, MD Course Coordinator - Laboratory Assistant Professor of Medicine	Ciro Maguiña, MD, DrMed Principal Professor of Medicine Associate Director, IMT
Francisco Bravo, MD Associate Professor of Dermatology Coordinator, Dermatology, IMT	Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, MD PhD DrMed Principal Professor of Medicine Head, Leishmaniasis Program
Pedro Legua, MD, PhD, DrMed Associate Professor of Medicine

UAB Faculty

Martin Rodriguez, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Montgomery Internal Medicine

Diagnostic Laboratory Faculty

Raul Tello, MD Parasitology Division, IMT	Katherine Soto Malaria Group, IMT
Dionicia Gamboa, PhD Malaria Group, IMT	Enrique Perez, PhD Chief, Entomology, IMT

US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment (NMRCD) Lima Faculty

John W. Sanders, MD Officer-in-Charge NMRCD-Peru	David L. Blazes, MD, MPH Director, Emerging Infections Program NMRCD-Peru	Amy C. Morrison, PhD Director, Iquitos Laboratory NMRCD-Peru
David A. Florin, PhD Director, Entomology Program NMRCD-Peru	Joel M. Montgomery, PhD Director, Outbreak Investigation Response Team NMRCD-Peru
Ryan C. Maves, MD NMRCD-Peru	Alan J. Magill, MD, FACP Director, Division of Experimental Therapeutics Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

McGill University Faculty - Montreal, Canada

Brian Ward, MD
Professor of Medicine
McGill Centre for Tropical Disease

Evelyne Kokoskin, MSc
Chief Technologist
McGill Centre for Tropical Diseases

Guest Faculty (2007)

Christoph Hatz Swiss Tropical Institute Basel, Switzerland	Raul Isturíz, MD Centro Medico de Caracas Caracas, Venezuela	David Warrell, DM, FRCP Oxford University Oxford, England
Alfredo Guzmán, MD Regional Director Pathfinder International - Lima	Claudio Lanata, MD, MPH Director of Research Institute of Nutrition Research, Lima	Mary Penny Roberts, MD Senior Investigator Institute of Nutrition Research, Lima
Laura Altobelli, PhD Associate Professor School of Public Health, UPCH	César Náquira, DrMed Director, Natl Institute of Health of Peru Prof, Univ Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Former Dir, Inst of Trop Med, San Marcos	Sten H. Vermund, MD, PhD Director, Institute for Global Health Vanderbilt University
	Evelyne Kokoskin, MSc Manager, Public Health Laboratory Ottawa, Canada	Jorge González, MD National Institute of Health, Lima

IMT, UPCH Faculty

Juan Cabrera, MD Associate Professor Neurology	Isaís Rolando, MD Associate Professor Opthalmology	Alejandro Bussaleu, MD Professor of Medicine Gastroenterology
Juan Echevarría, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Director, Research Office, UPCH	Eduardo Salazar-Lindo, MD, DrMed Professor of Pediatrics Department of Pediatrics	Luis Valdez, MD Associate Professor
Martin Tagle, MD Gastroenterology	David Iglesias, MD Clinical Attending Physician	Coralith García, MD Clinical Attending Physician
J Hidalgo, MD Clinical Attending Physician	Juana Huerta, MD Clinical Attending Physician

Faculty from Other UPCH Departments

Pablo Trefogli, MD Professor of Surgery Department of Pediatrics	Wilson Delgado, MD Professor of Dentistry School of Dentistry	Fabiola León Velarde, PhD Vice-Rector of Research, UPCH Dept. of Biological & Physical Sciences
César Cárcamo, MD, PhD School of Public Health	Patricia Garcia, MD, MPH Vice Dean School of Public Health	Hector Hugo Garcia, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Microbiology

Sub-Specialty Clinics - Attending Physicians

Loayza Hospital
Oscar Pamo, MD
Aldo Vivar, MD

Tropical Pathology
J.C. Ferrufino, MD
J Cok, MD

Pediatrics
Theresa Ochoa, MD
Eduardo Verne, MD
Manuel Gutierrez, MD
Jorge Candela, MD

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