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Professor, Infectious Diseases, Ophthalmology
Professor, Public Health and Preventive Medicine
OHSU-PSU School of Public Health
Kevin L. Winthrop, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Public Health at the Oregon Health & Science University-Portland State University School of Public Health (OHSU-PSU SPH), and a Professor of Infectious Diseases and Ophthalmology at the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR. He received his undergraduate degree in biology from Yale University in New Haven, CT and his MD from OHSU in 1998. He completed his internal medicine residency at Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland, OR, and completed an infectious disease epidemiology fellowship at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2003, Dr. Winthrop was conferred a Master in Public Health in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkley, CA, USA. In 2006, Dr. Winthrop returned to OHSU as a faculty member as an assistant professor in the School of Medicine.
Dr Winthrop is a former infectious disease epidemiologist in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He has co-authored over 350 publications, many regarding nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) and bronchiectasis or the epidemiologic and clinical aspects of other opportunistic infections associated with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, particularly those related to biologic immunosuppressive therapies.
Dr Winthrop, as a primary or senior investigator in many clinical or epidemiologic studies, has collaborated closely with the rheumatology community in the evaluation and prevention of opportunistic infections in that setting. In addition, he is also a member of the graduate faculty at OHSU where he mentors public health students, medical students, and physicians in post-graduate training. At OHSU, he directs a national referral center for chronic chest infections and he also serves as the medical consultant to the State of Oregon’s Tuberculosis Control Program.