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Address
Center for Infection and Immunity, 722 West 168th Street, Room 1801
New York, NY 10032
USA
Phone:212-342-9033
Fax: 212-342-9044
Email:[email protected]
Homepage URL
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Education and Training
| MD
| 1978
| Rush University
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| BA
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| Sarah Lawrence College
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Director, Center for Infection & Immunity
John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
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Professor of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Professor of Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Professor of School of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing University
Director, Center for Infection and Immunity
Director, Northeast Biodefense Center
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| W. Ian Lipkin, is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, and Professor of Neurology and Pathology at Columbia University; Scientific Director of the Northeast Biodefense Center; Principal Investigator of the 100,000 child Autism Birth Cohort; and member of the WHO Laboratory Surveillance Network. In 1989 Lipkin was the first to identify a microbe (Bornavirus) using molecular tools. In 1999 Lipkin led the team that identified West Nile virus in New York. In April 2003 he established an assay for SARS infection, hand carried 10,000 test kits to Beijing at the height of the outbreak, and was named Special Advisor to China for Research and International Cooperation in Infectious Diseases. Dr. Lipkin received his BA from Sarah Lawrence College, MD from Rush Medical College, training at the Queen Square Institute of Neurology; Internship in Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, Residency in Medicine at the University of Washington, Residency in Neurology at the University of California San Francisco, and Fellowship at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla. In 1990 he joined the University of California Irvine as an Assistant Professor of Neurology, Anatomy and Neurobiology, and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. He advanced to Professor before moving to Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in 2002. Dr. Lipkin is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (1981) and the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry (1986).
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