Faculty

Ralph Corey, MD - HYC Director | Christopher Woods, MD - HYC Co-Director | John Hamilton, MD
John Bartlett, MD | Nathan Thielman, MD | Vance Fowler, MD | David Walmer, MD
Carol Dukes Hamilton, MD | J. Brice Weinberg MD | Barth Reller MD | John Crump MD
Kathleen Clem, MD | Truls Ostbye, MD, PhD | Kathryn Whetten, PhD | Dennis Clements, MD, PhD
Cheryl Baker, MD

Staff

Cynthia Binanay, RN, BSN, MA - HYC Program Director | Cecelia Pezdek - Global Health Residency Program Coordinator | Carlee Reimer - HYC Program Assistant

Dennis A. Clements MD, PhD

Dr. Clements is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Professor of Community and Family Medicine and Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center . He is also an adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the University Of North Carolina School Of Public Health in Chapel Hill , NC . Dr. Clements received his M.D. degree from the University of Rochester in New York and completed his pediatric residency at Duke University , North Carolina . Dr. Clements took a research year in Uganda during his medical school training where he worked for the Uganda Cancer Institute. Pediatric residency training was performed at Duke from 1973-6. From 1976-8 Dr. Clements was a flight Surgeon in the USAF and treated children, adults and flying personnel. He was also a certified flight instructor. He then joined a private pediatric practice in Durham , NC for eight years. In 1986 Dr. Clements returned to Duke University as a Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellow. He completed an MPH and PhD in epidemiology from the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina .

As a research fellow, Dr. Clements developed interests in both vaccine research and in pediatric infectious disease epidemiology research. The research year for the PhD was spent in Melbourne , Australia examining the incidence of Haemophilus influenzae type b (HIB) infections in day care centers. In July 1990 Dr. Clements returned to Duke and joined the primary care pediatric practice, while he completed his PhD in December. At the same time he established the Duke Vaccine and Epidemiology Unit to continue studies on HIB, varicella, rotavirus vaccines.

Dr Clements has been the principal investigator for over 10 industry sponsored vaccine studies and has been a co-investigator for at least 10 additional studies. He has extensive experience with influenza, varicella and hepatitis A vaccines in adults and children. He has been a principal investigator for a combination MMR and varicella vaccine trial. In addition, he has clinical trials experience with inactivated influenza vaccine, BCG vaccine, rotavirus vaccines, combination hepatitis A/B vaccines, and conjugate meningococcal C vaccine.

Dr. Clements is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases and serves as the Medical Director of the Durham Community Health network, a state Medicaid sponsored entity. He also is a consultant to the legislature as a member of the NC Physician Advisory Committee to Medicaid and is the President-elect of the Durham-Orange Medical Society. Dr. Clements annually conducts a medical school class, "Exploring Medicine in Other Cultures" which is culminated with a 10 day medical mission to Honduras . He is also the Faculty Advisor for the medical Spanish curriculum for the medical school.