Biography
Dr. Warren D. Johnson, Jr., is the B.H. Kean Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is board certified in internal medicine and in infectious diseases and has authored over 150 scientific articles. His research ranges from clinical-epidemiological studies of AIDS, tuberculosis and leishmaniasis to research on the cellular immune response to protozoa (toxoplasma, leishmania). He was Chairman of the Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Research Committee (1987-1990) and served on the National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Diseases Council (1995-1999). He was the Chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine Infectious Diseases Subspecialty Board and a Director of the ABIM (1996-2000). He served as a Councilor of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2000-2003). Dr. Johnson has directed the Cornell research and training programs in Brazil since 1969 and in Haiti since 1980. Dr. Johnson is the Coordinator of the Weill-Cornell-Bugando Training Program in Mwanza, Tanzania. He was elected to the Brazilian National Academy of Science (2003) and is the recipient of multiple honors and awards from the Haitian Medical Society, the FHAME Foundation and GHESKIO.
Dr. Johnson received a NIAID MERIT award for studies of the "Natural History of HIV Infection in HaitiĀ (1990). International training has been a priority to Dr. Johnson. He is the director of NIH Fogarty International training grants in Haiti and is the co-director of the Tropical Medicine Research Center awarded to the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
