Dr. Steven Holland did his undergraduate work at St. John's College in Annapolis, and earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins. He stayed at Hopkins to do his medical internship and residency and a fellowship in infectious diseases.
Dr. Holland came to NIH in 1989 as a guest researcher in NIAID's Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology. He is presently an Investigator with NIAID's Laboratory of Host Defenses.
Dr. Holland's recent work examines the pathophysiology and treatment of chronic granulomatous disease and mycobacterial infections. Today Dr. Holland will discuss "Interferon Gamma Production and Response Pathways in Mycobacterial Infections."
Dr. Susan Swedo earned her medical degree at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She completed a pediatrics residency at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University in Chicago, and was named head of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Northwestern.In 1986, Dr. Swedo moved to Washington, D.C., and joined NIMH's Child Psychiatry Branch. For the past three years, until March of this year, she served as acting scientific director of NIMH before taking her present position as chief of the Pediatrics and Developmental Neuropsychiatry Branch.
Dr. Swedo's current research interests include neurodevelopmental aspects of mental illness and infection-triggered psychiatric disorders such as PANDAS, which stands for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections. Today Dr. Swedo asks, "Are PANDAS a New 'Species' of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?"
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