RICHARD L. GUERRANT, M.D

Thomas H. Hunter Professor of International Medicine

Director, Center for Global Health

University of Virginia School of Medicine

Chief

Health Sciences Center

BOX 801379

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA 22908

Tel: (434) 924-5242; Fax: (434) 977-5323

Email: rlg9a@virginia.edu

Author of over 400 scientific and clinical articles and reviews and numerous major textbook chapters, and editor of 7 books (including one on health issues in Northeastern Brazil entitled "At the Edge of Development: Health Crises in a Transitional Society,"a textbook on Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract and the top new 2-volume textbook on Tropical Infectious Diseases), Dr. Guerrant graduated from Davidson College and University of Virginia School of Medicine, was trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Harvard Medical Service of the Boston City Hospital, NIH, Johns Hopkins and UVa and has been elected to AOA, ASCI, AAP and ACCA. He has worked in the Congo, Bangladesh and Brazil and started the Division of Geographic and International Medicine with Kellogg and Rockefeller support in 1978. Since then he has recruited outstanding faculty and his group has trained over 150 postdoctoral fellows and students who are becoming leaders in tropical medicine throughout the United States and abroad, including over 60 postdoctoral trainees and colleagues from Brazil, Ghana, China and Philippines, a remarkable 100% of whom have returned  to their home countries to become leaders in their respective institutions and to develop a model of sustained, productive international collaboration.

Guerrant received the Smadel and Abbott Awards of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, chaired their Practice Guidelines for management of diarrhea, was named Professor Honoris Causa at UFC and received the Emilio Ribas Medal of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases in 1997. He has served on several editorial and USDA and WHO advisory boards, VA and NIH Study Sections, Clark and Child Health Foundation Boards, chaired the US Cholera Panel of the US-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program, and the International Affairs Committee of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Guerrant has developed innovative approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of common gastrointestinal illnesses that have relevance to these problems both here in the United States as well as abroad and was Henderson Inventor of the Year in 1997 for his new glutamine derivative-based ORNT (oral rehydration and nutrition therapy). Dr. Guerrant is also director of the Office of International Health and he has recently launched an entirely new University-wide Center for Global Health at the University of Virginia. In this role he is expanding international opportunities for students, fellows and faculty from the University of Virginia and is seeking endowed support to sustain this unique program. As recent President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Dr. Guerrant is also instrumental in shaping tropical medicine training in the United States and is an outspoken voice for the urgency of international health as a transcendent human value and as a key ingredient in controlling population overgrowth and in providing a secure future for civilized society.