Professional Activities

Principal Positions Held

2006 - 2008	University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH	Research Instructor	Medicine
2008 - 2009	University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH	Research Assistant Professor	Medicine
2009 - 2012	Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation	Assistant Professor	Pediatrics
2012 - Present	University of California at San Francisco	Assistant Professor	Medicine

Honors And Awards

1991	Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Scholarship, Xavier University
2001	National Foundation for Infectious Disease (NFID)
2001	Colin Powell Tropical Disease Postdoctoral Fellowship
2002	Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities
2003	National Research Foundation of South Africa Postdoctoral fellowship
2003	University of Cape Town Postdoctoral Fellowship
2006	AAI Minority Scientist Travel Award
2007	Keystone Symposia Scholarship
2009	Keystone Symposia Scientific Advisory Board fellow
2014	Burke Family Global Health Faculty Scholar UCSF Global Health Sciences
2014	Burroughs Wellcome Award Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease
2014	Keystone Symposia Scientific Advisory Board Member

Professional Activities

Professional Organizations

Memberships

2006 - present	American Association of Immunologists
2013 - present	Society of Mucosal Immunology

Service To Professional Publications

2009 - present	Editorial Board, Infection and Immunity
2009 - present	Editorial Board, Journal of Clinical and Cellular Immunology
2009 - present	Referee for Journal of Immunology, Infection and Immunity, Mucosal Immunology, PLos Pathogens, Gastroenterology, Journal of Leukocyte Biology, PLos one, International journal of Parasitology
2014 - present	Guest Editor, PLos Pathogens
2015 - present	Associate Editor of The Journal of Immunology

Invited Presentations

International

2010	Tokyo Medical University Tokyo, Japan
2010	Chiba University, Japan
2012	CNRS-Orleans Immunologie et Embryologie Moleculaires,  France
2014	University of Cape Town, IIDMM, South Africa

National

2010	Keystone Symposia, The Macrophage: Intersection of Pathogenic and Protective Inflammation (Plenary speaker and session chair)
2011	Keystone Symposia, Mucosal Biology: A Fine Balance between Tolerance and Immunity 2011 (Plenary speaker)
2013	Keystone Symposia, Type 2 Immunity: Initiation, Maintenance, Homeostasis and Pathology (short talk)
2015	AAI Major Symposia: Mechanisms of Host Immunity, speaker and chair

Regional And Other Invited Presentations

2009	University of Louisville
2009	Amgen, Seattle Washington
2009	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
2009	University of California San Francisco
2010	College of Veterinary Medicine Cornell University
2010	University of Lexington
2011	Biology of Parasitism course, Marine Biological Laboratory
2011	Trudeau Institute
2011	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2011	Louisiana Vaccine Center at LSUHSC
2011	University of Washington
2012	Rush University Medical Center
2014	UC Davis
2014	University of North Dakota
2014	Biogen Idec
2015	UC Irvine
2015	UC Riverside
2015	Biology of Parasitism course, Marine Biological Laboratory

Government And Other Professional Service

2009 - 2009	National Institute of Health Study Section IHD ad hoc member
2010 - 2010	National Institutes of Health Study Section IHD ad hoc member
2011 - 2011	National Institutes of Health Study Section IHD ad hoc member
2013 - 2013	National Institutes of Health Study Section LCMI ad hoc member
2014 - 2014	National Institutes of Health Study Section PTHE ad hoc member
2014 - 2014	National Institutes of Health Study Section: International Collaborations in Infectious Disease (U01, U19)
2014 - 2014	National Institutes of Health Study Section IHD ad hoc member

University and public service

University service

School of Medicine

2012 - present

Adjunct Faculty Search Committee member

Teaching and mentoring

Teaching

Formal Scheduled Classes For Ucsf Students

Qtr	Academic Yr	Course Number and Title	Teaching Contribution	Units	Class Size
Fall	2012 -	Microbiology 204: Molecular and Cellular Immunology	Discussion leader		7-8
Fall	2013 -	Microbiology 204: Molecular and Cellular Immunology	Discussion leader		7-8
Fall	2013 -	I-3 Immunology	Discussion leader		10-14
Fall	2014 -	I-3 Immunology	Discussion leader		10-14

Postgraduate And Other Courses

2008 - present	Immunology of Disease graduate level	2 lectures
2010 - present	Current Topics in Immunology	1 lecture

Teaching Narrative

I am committed and capable of teaching immunology and parasitology to the next generation of scientists and clinicians. My experience has centered upon undergraduate and graduate students and junior-level postdocs. Given my background, I have considerable expertise in teaching concepts pertaining to host-pathogen interactions. During my time at UCSF, I have served as a discussion leader in several courses for UCSF graduate students and medical students.  I enjoy the mentor-mentee relationship and have a strong interest in mentoring students from diverse and under-represented backgrounds. I have also continued to enhance my leadership/mentorship skills by completing the Scientific Leadership and Management training course at the Gladstone Institute and have already reaped the rewards of this type of training. In the future, I look forward to participating in the UCSF/CORO Faculty Leadership Collaborative.