Associate Professor
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Daniel received his BSc (’98) and MSc (’01) from the University of British Columbia, and an MD (’05) from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington, and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School. From 2010 to 2014, Daniel lived in Dhaka, Bangladesh, working on diarrheal disease immunology as a joint research fellow of Massachusetts General Hospital and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). He is currently an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (Infectious Diseases), and the Dr. Thomas D. Rees and Natalie B. Rees Presidential Endowed Chair in Global Medicine, at the University of Utah. His research focuses on the immunology, epidemiology, and clinical management of diarrheal diseases and other mucosal infections, funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is Co-Director of Utah's 3i (Immunology, Inflammation, and Infectious Diseases) Initiative, and Associate Director of the Utah CTSI T32 and R25 training programs. Clinically, he works in the Travel Medicine clinic and inpatient ID consult services, and is the site director of the Utah site for the GeoSentinel and Global TravEpiNet networks for travel medicine. In his free time, Daniel enjoys hiking, skiing, fiddling, and hanging out with his family.
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