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TNC-CDAAR
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Sherwood Gorbach, M.D.
Professor
Principle Investigator and Director of TNC-CDAAR |
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(617) 636-3811 |
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(617) 636-3810 |
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Dr. Gorbach, Emeritus Director of the Nutrition/Infection Unit, is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and a Professor in the Dorothy Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts. Dr. Gorbach graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1962, completed his residency in internal medicine at Cornell-Bellevue Medical Center, and then returned to Tufts Medical Center for a fellowship in infectious diseases. He received additional postgraduate training at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and in gastroenterology at the Hammersmith Royal Postgraduate Medical School. Since 1969 Dr. Gorbach has been continuously funded as a principal investigator by the National Institutes of Health for research in infectious diseases and nutrition. Currently he is principal investigator on a program project grant, “Nutrition and HIV Infection,” an R01 award on “Nutrition Interventions in AIDS Wasting,” and an R01 award on “Nutritional Status in HIV - positive Hispanic Drug Abusers.” Dr. Gorbach has published over 490 papers and has authored 15 books.
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