Infectious Diseases Grand Rounds

Speaker: Tim Kuberski, MD, FIDSA
Title: "I Am a Prion and I Want Your Brain" Prions, Not Zombies, Are the Real Brain Eaters
Speaker Bio:

Timothy T. Kuberski, MD, FIDSA, is an ideal recipient of the IDSA's 2007 Watanakunakorn Clinician Award.  This award is named to honor the memory of Dr. Chatrchai Watanakunakorn and given annually by the IDSA Education and Research Foundation to an IDSA member or fellow in recognition of outstanding achievement in the clinical practice of infectious diseases.  Dr. Kuberski's career easily meets and exceeds the criteria for this Award.  The recipient must be in clinical practice, spend at least 75 percent of his or her time in direct patient care, exhibit excellence in clinical care, clinical research, patient or community education, exhibit compassion and patient advocacy, and contribute to national or state infectious diseases societies.  Dr. Kuberski is a 1969 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Medicine and completed his internship at the University of California's Los Angeles County Hospital.  He did his residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine.  He fulfilled his military service as a research associate at the National Institute of Health Pacific Research Section in Honolulu, Hawaii, then completed an infectious diseases fellowship at the UCLA School of Medicine.  Dr. Kuberski is credited with pioneering the specialty of infectious diseases in Phoenix, Arizona, where he has been in private practice for over 25 years.  Dr. Kuberski has received the Upjohn Award as the best clinician of his medical school class; he is one of the originating members of the Arizona Infectious Diseases Society (ARIDS), and also a strong advocate of the local Association of Practitioners in Infection Control (APIC).  Dr. Kuberski has also added meaningful information to the literature, publishing clinically oriented papers on coccidiodomycosis, mucormycosis, plague, dengue, and eosinophilic meningitis among others.
 

CONTACT: For more information, please email or call Andrew Pritchard or Myrna Seiter, (520) 626-6887

This University of Arizona event is sponsored by the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, UA College of Medicine - Tucson. It is open to community physicians and other interested health-care professionals.