Today's first speaker is Dr. Allan Kirk, a principal investigator with the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda and a clinical assistant professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Dr. Kirk earned his medical degree and a Ph.D. in immunology at Duke University. He stayed on there to complete an internship and residencies in surgery, including a year as chief resident of surgery. Dr. Kirk spent several years with the D. Bernard Amos Transplantation Research Laboratory, and completed a fellowship in transplantation at the University of Wisconsin Hospital.
Dr. Kirk took his present position with USUHS in 1996, and joined the Naval Medical Center last year.
Dr. David Harlan is the director of the Immune Cell Biology Program at the Naval Medical Research Institute.Dr. Harlan did his undergraduate work at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He went to medical school at Duke University, where he also completed an internship and residency in medicine. He spent 4 years at the San Diego Naval Hospital as a staff internist before returning to Duke for a fellowship in endocrinology. In 1991 he joined the Naval Medical Research Institute as head of preclinical studies in the Immune Cell Biology Program, which he now directs. He also heads the Combat Casualty Care Department there.
Dr. Harlan's research interests are tolerance mechanisms and organ transplantation, and autoimmune illnesses, especially insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
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