Advertisement

Get Topic Updates

Share

Dr. Henry Masur

Written by the OrganizedWisdom Team with Elisa Carter as the reviewer. All original content is supervised by the The OrganizedWisdom Medical Review Team

Henry Masur, MD, is immediate past president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). He is the Chief of the Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine. He was IDSA Councilor/Board Member from 2001 to 2004 and has also served terms on the HIV/AIDS Committee, the Program Committee and the Nominating Committee. He was the founding chair and continues to serve as the co-chairman of the USPHS-IDSA Guideline on Management of AIDS Related Opportunistic Infections.1

Fast Facts:

  • Leading clinical researcher who continues to study better ways to treat HIV disease and its associated opportunistic infections.2
  • Over the past two decades his department has been involved in extensive studies of the pathophysiology of Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia.3
  • Graduated from Cornell University Medical College in 1972 and did his post-graduate training at the New York Hospital, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Cornell University Medical School (Fellowship, Infectious Diseases).1


Success!

Thanks for helping us improve this WisdomCard. We'll let you know if your resource makes the Top 10!.

Have another great resource to share? Go ahead and nominate another resource!

Privacy Policy

Advertisement



Research Notes References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Infectious Diseases Society of America: Executive Committee Biographies
  2. National Institutes of Health: Henry Masur, M.D.
  3. Strategic Results: HIV Pathogenesis, Current Epidemiology, and Future Course

About this WisdomCard

Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic. In addition to filtering out spam and bad links, WisdomCards highlight tips and warnings, such as:

  • Guide Favorite
  • Guide Warning
  • Scroll down to reach relevant content
  • PDF
  • Video
  • In Memoriam

Help improve this WisdomCard by suggesting great links.

Advertisement