Demystifying Medicine
Demystifying Medicine
Stephen Savarino, M.D.
CAPT Stephen Savarino, M.D., is the director of the Enteric Diseases Department at the Naval Medical Research Center. He also serves as chair of the Diarrheal Diseases Prevention Research Program Area for the U.S. Military Infectious Diseases Research Program at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. Dr. Savarino has worked in the fields of bacterial diarrhea pathogenesis and prevention for twenty years, including a tour as Director of Field Research at the Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, Cairo, Egypt where he led a five- year project assessing the safety and efficacy of a killed, oral enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) vaccine in Egyptian children.
Dr. Savarino is currently the principal investigator on Army, NIAID and Congressionally funded grants to develop new-generation vaccines against travelersí diarrhea by understanding and foiling the molecular events that occur upon initial contact between host and pathogen. He holds joint appointments as Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Uniformed Services University.
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