Ep4 - Clinical Trials for Infectious Diseases (Part II)
Posted on Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Show Notes
Guests
Dr. Andrew Trotter
Dr Trotter is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Disease, Immunology and International Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. His clinical and research interests focus on the care of people living with HIV, HIV prevention, prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections including syphilis, hepatitis C and general infectious disease. He also is passionate about clinical and research approaches to improve access to and medical care for marginalized populations in the US and globally such as LGBTQI populations, people with unstable housing, people with a history of incarceration and people who struggle with substance use.
Hosts
Arshi Arora
Arshi Arora is a Research Biostatistician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She holds a double Masters of Science degree in Computational Biology and Biostatistics from Carnegie Mellon and Columbia University respectively. Her interests lie in creating elegant solutions to biological and clinical questions via simple yet compelling statistical models. She is a minimalist and follows an intense recycling waste regimen.
Sabah Kadri, PhD
Dr. Sabah Kadri has a background in Computer Engineering with a PhD in Computational Biology from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Kadri leads a team of bioinformaticians and scientists to design, develop and implement cloud-based computational infrastructure and containerized bioinformatics software in clinical diagnostic services for germline and somatic next generation sequencing (NGS) testing. She has experience building clinical diagnostics pipelines and systems for adult and pediatric diseases and continues to work on informatics solutions and research questions for translational ‘omics’ and biomedical research to promote personalized medicine.
