Infectious Diseases Grand Rounds with Johns Hopkins’ Dr. William Werbel

Tue, 01/28/2025 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

[William Werbel, MD, PhD] This University of Arizona event is sponsored by the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine, UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson. It is open to the public, particularly community physicians and other interested health-care professionals. Please join us as we welcome the presenter:

William Werbel, MD, PhD

Topic: “Understanding infectious risks following organ transplantation for people with HIV”

Infectious Diseases Grand Rounds

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 | 11a.m.-12 p.m.
College of Medicine – Tucson, via Zoom (see below for link/password)

About the Presenter: Dr. Werbel is a physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore with a primary interest in optimizing protection against opportunistic infections in immunocompromised persons, particularly following solid organ transplantation, using a combination of epidemiological and translational approaches. He completed clinical and research fellowships in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins, after earning his medical degree at the University of Michigan and internal medicine residency training and chief residency at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He received a K23 career development award (NIAID) to study serious infections following transplantation for people with HIV as well as earn his doctorate in clinical investigation from Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is the associate director for Epidemiology and Quantitative Analysis in the Johns Hopkins Transplant Research Center, principal investigator of the national Emerging Pathogens of Concern in Immunocompromised Persons (EPOC) cohort study, and a protocol member of the NIH-funded COVID-19 Protection After Transplant (CPAT) Trials of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.