Warren D. Johnson, Jr., M.D. is the B.H. Kean Professor of Tropical Medicine and Chief of the Division of International Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Johnson is a graduate of Carroll College (B.A.) and of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (M.D.). His research interests include clinical and epidemiological studies of AIDS, tuberculosis, and leishmaniasis, and the host immune response to protozoa (Toxoplasma, Leishmania). He has served as Chairman of the NIAID Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Research Committee and on the NIAID National Advisory Diseases Council. He served as the Chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine Infectious Diseases Subspecialty Board, as a Director of the ABIM, and as a Councilor of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Dr. Johnson has directed Cornell research and training programs in Brazil since 1969 and in Haiti since 1980. Dr. Johnson received an NIAID MERIT award for studies of the "Natural History of HIV Infection in Haiti" (1990). Dr. Johnson is currently the principal investigator or Co-PI of seven research and training grants for work in New York, Haiti, Brazil, and Tanzania. He is a Professor Honorario of the Federal University of Bahia (1989), a recipient of the Emilio Ribas Medal (1992), and a member of the Brazilian National Academy of Sciences (2006).
Dr. Warren D. Johnson, Jr., is the B.H. Kean Professor of Tropical Medicine and Chief of the Division of International Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is board certified in internal medicine and in infectious diseases and has authored over 150 scientific articles. His research ranges from clinical-epidemiological studies of AIDS, tuberculosis and leishmaniasis to research on the cellular immune response to protozoa (toxoplasma, leishmania). He was Chairman of the Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Research Committee (1987-1990) and served on the National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Diseases Council (1995-1999). He was the Chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine Infectious Diseases Subspecialty Board and a Director of the ABIM (1996-2000). He served as a Councilor of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2000-2003). Dr. Johnson has directed the Cornell research and training programs in Brazil since 1969 and in Haiti since 1980. Dr. Johnson is the Coordinator of the Weill-Cornell-Bugando Training Program in Mwanza, Tanzania. He was elected to the Brazilian National Academy of Science (2003) and is the recipient of multiple honors and awards from the Haitian Medical Society, the FHAME Foundation and GHESKIO.
Dr. Johnson received a NIAID MERIT award for studies of the "Natural History of HIV Infection in HaitiĀ (1990). International training has been a priority to Dr. Johnson. He is the director of NIH Fogarty International training grants in Haiti and is the co-director of the Tropical Medicine Research Center awarded to the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
