RICHARD A. KASLOW

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.