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Dr.
Barbara Detrick is Associate Professor of Pathology, Director of
Immunology Laboratory and the Cytokine Laboratory, in the
Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins
University and Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology &
Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SPH. Dr. Detrick received
her Ph.D. from Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, D.C. and
completed her post-doctoral training at the NCI, NIH. Dr.
Detrick is a fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology
(1993) and a diplomate of the American Board of Medical
Laboratory Immunology (ABMLI)(1980). Currently, she serves as
the Chair of the ABMLI and as the President of the Association
of Medical Laboratory Immunologists (AMLI) society. Dr. Detrick
also serves on the editorial board of
Clinical & Vaccine Immunology,
is the Editor-in-Chief of the 2006
Manual of Molecular and Clinical Laboratory Immunology & is the
author of over 90
academic
publications
& several book chapters in Immunology.
Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University in 1999, Dr. Detrick
directed the Immunology and HLA Laboratories at the George
Washington University School of Medicine & the Immunology
Section at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. During her 17 years
at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, she
performed basic research in immunology & virology (National
Cancer Institute & National Eye Institute) and later in her
career served as a Scientific Administrator at both the National
Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases and National
Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases, at
the NIH. Dr. Detrick's professional interests focus on the
discovery and implementation of laboratory tests to evaluate
patients with a variety of immunologic disorders. Her research
interests include work on the immunologic and virologic aspects
of immune mediated disorders. Currently, she studies ocular
immunology and viral immunopathology with emphasis on a model of
retinal degeneration, experimental coronavirus retinopathy.
Recent studies have focused on evaluating role of cytokines in
vascular inflammation. |