Global Health Grand Rounds: Recognizing Outbreaks–Global Health in an Interconnected World

When:
May 6, 2015 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
2015-05-06T08:00:00-07:00
2015-05-06T09:00:00-07:00
Where:
Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, Paul Berg Hall B&C, 2nd Floor
Stanford University
300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94304
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Department of Medicine
650-721-1166
Global Health Grand Rounds: Recognizing Outbreaks--Global Health in an Interconnected World @ Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, Paul Berg Hall B&C, 2nd Floor  | Stanford | California | United States

Presenter: Timothy Brewer, MD
Vice Provost, Interdisciplinary and Cross-Campus Affairs
University of California, Los Angeles

Timothy F. Brewer is the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary and Cross-campus Affairs at UCLA.  In this capacity, Dr. Brewe works with faculty and campus leadership to promote interdisciplinary and cross-campus research, education and service programs in thematic areas of strategic significance to the campus as a whole.

Previously, Dr. Brewer served as director of global health programs and an associate professor of medicine and associate member of epidemiology, biostatistics and occupational health at McGill University Medical School. He has published extensively on using analytic methods to optimize the population-based control of infectious diseases, particularly tuberculosis and HIV. He has served on advisory boards and review panels for the World Health Organization (WHO), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, among others, and he recently served as co-chair of the CDC’s National Working Group on Tuberculosis in the Foreign-born and was a member of the National Tuberculosis Education Steering Committee.

Board certified in infectious diseases, Dr. Brewer maintains a hospital-based practice in addition to his research and administrative responsibilities. As program director for the International Society for Infectious Diseases, he has extensive experience developing and overseeing training, education and service programs for physicians and scientists in low- and middle-income countries. Representative projects include international congresses, training workshops, fellowship and grants programs, and ProMED-mail, the society’s program for monitoring emerging diseases. Partners in these projects have included organizations such as the WHO, NIH, CDC, the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Pan-American Infectious Diseases Society and the International Society of Chemotherapy, as well as numerous academic institutions and companies; and the projects have been supported by grants from the NIH, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation, among others.

Dr. Brewer holds a B.A. in history from Yale University, an M.D. from New York Medical College and an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. He has received multiple teaching awards, including the Mount Auburn Hospital/Harvard Medical School’s new clinician teaching award and senior residents’ consultant of the year award, and Harvard Medical School’s inaugural Klaus Peter International Teaching Award.