Dr. Keith A. Joiner, newly appointed as Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine, is an expert on infectious diseases whose research has focused on malaria, which kills some 2 million people each year, and toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection commonly seen in people with AIDS.

A member of the Yale faculty since 1989, he is chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases and director of the School of Medicine's Investigative Medicine Program. He holds joint appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and Public Health and Cell Biology.

Joiner has coauthored nearly 200 articles in scientific research publications and lectures widely in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia on topics ranging from septic shock to tropical diseases to bacteria-host cell interactions. He holds two patents, one as the co-inventor of a method for treating gram-positive septicemia, and the other for a quantitative assay for human terminal complement cascade.

Before coming to Yale, Joiner was a senior investigator and head of the Unit of Microbial Pathogenesis in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health. He was affiliated with NIAID for more than a decade, and taught at Tufts University School of Medicine as a NIAID researcher. He also has been a clinical and research fellow in infectious disease at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston.

A graduate of the University of Chicago, Joiner earned his M.D. from the University of Colorado. He completed his medical internship at Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal and was a resident there and at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Joiner received grants for his research at Yale from the National Intsitutes of Health and Burroughs Wellcome. The latter awarded him a Scholar Award in Molecular Parisitology in 1995. His other honors include a Commendation Medal from the United States Public Health Service.

At the medical school, the Yale physician teaches courses in and lectures on cell biology, medical microbiology, microbiology and pathophysiology (infectious diseases).

Joiner serves on the editorial boards of Cellular Microbiology and Current Drug Targets ­ Infectious Disorders, and he chairs the training program committee for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He serves on committees of the Association of Subspecialty Professors and the Association of Professors of Medicine. He is also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society for Cell Biology, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Society for Microbiology and the Interurban Clinical Club, among other professional organizations.

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