| Infectious Diseases Megan.Devlin@sjhc.london.on.ca |
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 MEGAN DEVLIN, MD, FRCPC, Assistant ProfessorBio sketch unavailable at this time. Keywords: HIV Medical Education Tropical Medicine / Infectious Disease | |||
| Infectious Diseases Sameer.Elsayed@lhsc.on.ca |
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 SAMEER ELSAYED, MD, FRCPC, Professor Dr. Elsayed received his MD degree from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. He completed residency training in Medical Microbiology at Western University and Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases training at the University of Calgary. He has authored over 125 peer-reviewed manuscripts and abstracts on a wide range of topics in Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. Dr. Elsayed is a Professor of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at Western University. He maintains an active clinical practice in Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, and Medical Microbiology at London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care in London, Ontario. Dr. Elsayed is the Physician Lead in Antimicrobial Stewardship at London Health Sciences Centre. Keywords: Antimicrobial resistance Molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases | |||
| Infectious Diseases rklein8@uwo.ca |
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 Robyn Klein, MD, FRCPC, PhD, ProfessorDr. Robyn S. Klein received her B.A. with honors in Biology from Barnard College, Columbia University followed by a MS, with distinction, and Ph.D. in Neuroscience and an M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She then completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham & Women's Hospital and her clinical fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, followed by post-doctoral training in Immunology at Harvard University, during which she received a Harvard Scholar Award. Dr. Klein joined the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) in 2003, where she attained Professorships in the Departments of Medicine, Pathology & Immunology, and Neuroscience. At WUSM, she also served as Vice Provost and Associate Dean for Graduate Education, the Directorship of the WUSM Medical Scientist Training Program, President of the WUSM Academic Women’s Network, and founded and directed the Center for Neuroimmunology and Neuroinfectious Diseases. At WUSM, Dr. Klein developed a neuroimmunology basic and translational science research program focused on the pathogenesis of neuroinflammatory diseases of the central nervous system (CNS). Work in the Klein laboratory has defined novel roles for cytokines and chemokines in the regulation of blood-brain barrier permeability to arboviruses, protective versus pathogenic leukocytes, and in neurologic sequelae of viral infections such as impaired learning and memory. In 2020, she became The Robert E. and Louise F. Dunn Distinguished Professor of Medical Sciences in Medicine & Immunology, received the WUSM Distinguished Educator Award, and a National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes (NINDS) Outstanding Researcher Award. In 2024, Dr. Klein joined the faculty of Western University, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, as Canada Excellence Research in Neuroimmunology and Neurovirology and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology. The same year, she was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society for physicians and as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Keywords: Astrocytes Blood-brain barrier CD8 T cells Microglia Neuroimmunology Neurovirology RNA viruses | |||
| Infectious Diseases sarah.shalhoub@lhsc.on.ca |
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 SARAH SHALHOUB, MD, FRCPC, Assistant ProfessorDr Shalhoub is a clinician teacher and Medical Director of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Program at Western University. She completed her medical degree at KAAU, Saudi Arabia. She completed her transplant infectious diseases training at University of Toronto. Her research focuses on infections in the immunocompromised host. Keywords: Transplant Infectious Diseases | |||
| Infectious Diseases Michael.Silverman@sjhc.london.on.ca |
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 MICHAEL S. SILVERMAN, MD, FRCPC, FACP, AAHIVMed, Chair/Chief of Infectious Diseases
Western University and London Health Sciences Center and St Joseph’s Hospital
Medical Director of Infection Control- St Joseph’s Hospital
Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Silverman received his medical degree and Residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto. He carried out his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, and an HIV post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. Dr. Silverman is a pioneer in the field of Fecal Microbial Transplantation (FMT) for treatment of Clostridium difficile. He was one of the first to perform the procedure in North America and he has established a large clinical and research program associated with this. He was also the first to demonstrate the effectiveness of FMT in first line therapy of cancer patients on immunotherapy. He has conducted many studies of prevention of infectious complications of injection drug use and has worked extensively in developing countries doing research on HIV and Tropical Infections. He has over 140 peer reviewed publications including recently as a first or senior author in the Annals of Internal Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine, JAMA series and Lancet Infectious Diseases. Reviews of his work have been written in Science, Nature and reported in the International mass media including in the New York Times, BBC, CNN, The Times of India etc.. Keywords: Fecal microbial transplantation HIV PWID | |||
