Keith Joiner, expert on infectious disease, also appointed a Von Zedtwitz Professor

Keith A. Joiner, M.D., newly appointed as Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine, is an expert on infectious diseases whose research has focused on malaria, which kills some two million people each year, and toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection commonly seen in people with AIDS.

A member of the Yale faculty since 1989, he is chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases and director of the School of Medicine’s Investigative Medicine Program. He holds joint appointments in the departments of epidemiology and public health and of cell biology.

Joiner has co-authored nearly 200 articles in scientific research publications and lectures widely in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia on topics ranging from septic shock to tropical diseases to bacteria-host cell interactions. He holds two patents, one as the co-inventor of a method for treating gram-positive septicemia, and the other for a quantitative assay for human terminal complement cascade.