Keith A. Joiner, M.D., M.P.H. ’03

Keith A. Joiner, M.D., M.P.H. ’03, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine, became dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine, on March 1. At Yale Joiner was the associate chair of medicine, chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases and director of the Investigative Medicine Program. Joiner’s group studied two parasites, one that causes central nervous system infections in patients with AIDS and another that causes malaria. He joins the University of Arizona at the start of a major expansion, including a bioresearch institute and a medical research building.