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Kenrad Nelson
Professor
Academic Degrees
MD
Departmental Affiliation
Epidemiology
Joint Departmental Affiliations
International Health
Departmental Address
Bloomberg E7132A
Phone: 410-955-1296
Fax: 410-955-1836
Research and Professional Experience

Research interests include HIV/AIDS, tropical medicine, leprosy, nosocomial infections, hepatitis, infections in drug users, transfusion-transmitted infections, tuberculosis and Penicillium marneffei.

Research in populations in the United States, including injection drug users patients with HIV/AIDS, blood donors and transfusion recipients as well as in several international sites, including Thailand, Bangladesh, China, Republic of Georgia.

Keywords

Epidemiology, HIV/AIDS, tropical medicine, leprosy, nosocomial infections, hepatitis, infections in drug users, and tuberculosis.

Honors and Awards

2007 Fellow, American Association for the advancement of Science

2006 – 2007 President, American Epidemiological Society

2005 - Present U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF), Recognition

Medal, for International Training and Collaboration in Medical Reseaarch with Republic of Georgia

1994 Honorary Doctoral Degree in Public Health, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

1989 – Present Delta Omega Academic Honorary Society, Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health

1982 - Present Fellow, American Epidemiological Society

1974 – Present Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America

Selected Publications

1.Kuniholm M, Purcell RH,McQuillanGM, EngleRE,wasley a, Nelson KE.Prevalence ofHepatitis E Virus Infectyions in the United States: day=ta from NHANES III, 1988-1994 JourInfet Dis 20099;200:48-56

2.Fwu C-W ,Chien Y-C1. Kirk GD,NelsonKE,You S-l,Kuo H-S,feonleib M,Chen ,CJ Hepatitis B virus infection and herpastocellular carcinoma among parous women : A nationwde cohort study,J Nat'l cancer Inst 2009;101:1019-1027

3.Dhalla S,Nelson KE,Singer J, Poole G HIV vaccine preparedness studies in developing non-organization for economic cooperation and development (non-OECD) countries.AIDS Care 2090;21:335-348

4.Nelson KE,Costello C,Suriyanon V,Sennun S, Duerr A.Survivalafter HIV-1 subtype E(CRF01A-E) ainfections amongblood donors and thier sposes in NorthernThailand. AIDS 2007;21 (Suppl 6):S47-S54

5. Nanthachit N,Thaikruea L,Thongsawat S, Leertrakool N,Fongsatidikil L,Ness P, Nelson KE .Evaluation of a multiplex HIV-1,hepatitis C and hapatitisB viurus NAT assay to detect viremic blood donors in Norhhern Thailand.Transfusion 2007;47:1803-1808

6Arcari C.M., Gaydos C.A., Nieto F.J., Krauss M., Nelson K.E. Association of chlamydia pneumoniae IgA and acute myocardial infarction in young males in the U.S. military: importance of timing of exposure measurement. Clinical Infect Dis 2005; 40:1123-30.

7Caroline Costello, Kenrad Nelson, Denise Jamieson, Lisa Spacck, Supaluk Sennun, Sodsai Tovanabutra, Kittipong Rungrengthanakit, Vinai Suriyana and Ann Duerr. Predictors of low CD4 count in resource limited settings: based on an antiretroviral-naïve heterosexual Thai population. JAIDS 2005; 39:242-248.

8 Hiransuthikul N., Nelson K.E., Hiransuthikul P., Vorayingyong Anond, Paewplot R. INH preventive therapy among Thai adult HIV-infected patients. Int JTLD and Lung Dis 2005; 9:270-275.

9 Vlahov David, Cun-lin Wang, Joseph Bareta, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Kenrad E. Nelson. Mortality risk among new onset injection drug users. Addiction 2004; 99:946-954.

10 Cun-lin Wang, David Vlahov, Noya Galai, Joseph Bareta, Stephanie A. Strathdee, Kenrad E. Nelson and Timothy R. Sterling. Mortality among HIV-seropositive and seronegative drug users in the HAART Era: Implications for when to initiate therapy. J Infect Dis 2004; 190:1046-54.

11 Thaikruea L., Nelson K.E., Thongsawat S., Maneekarn N., Netski D., Thomas D.L. Risk factors for hepatitis C virus infection among blood donors in northern Thailand. Transfusion 2004; 44:1433-40.

12 Nora Chen, Kenrad E. Nelson, Frank J Jenkins, Vinai Suriyanon, Ann Duerr, Caroline Costello, Valerie Robison and Lisa P. Jacobson. Seroprevalence of human herpesvirus-8 infection in northern Thailand. Clin Infect Dis 2004; 39:1052-8.

13 Kuang S.Y., Lekawanvijit S., Maneekarn N., Thongsawat S., Brodovica K., Nelson K.E., Gropman J.D. Hepatitis B 1762T/1764A mutations, hepatitis C infection and condon 249 P53 mutations in hepatocellular carcinomas from Thailand. Cancer Epid, Biomarkers and Prevention 2005; 14:300-4.

14. Nelson K.E., Galai N., Safaeian M., Strathdee S.A., Celentano D.D., Vlahov D. Temporal trends in HIV incidence and risk behavior among injection drug users in Baltimore, 1988-1998. Am Jour Epidemiol 2002; 156:641-653.

15. Nelson KE, Eiumtrakul S, Celentano DD, Beyrer C, Galai N, Kawichai S, Khamboonruang C. HIV infection in young men in northern Thailand, 1991-1998: increasing role of injection drug use. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2002; 29(1):62-8.

16. Supparatpinyo K., Perriens, J., Nelson K.E., Sirisanthan T. A controlled trial of Itraconazole to prevent relapse of Pencillium marneffei infection in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. New Engl J Med 1998; 339:1739-1743.

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