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

Vance Fowler, MD

Dr. Fowler graduated cum laude from Duke University, where he double-majored in English and Zoology.   He attended medical school at the University of North Carolina, where he graduated AOA and with honors. He returned to Duke University and completed residency in internal medicine, fellowships in infectious diseases and health services research, a masters in health science in clinical research, and certification in clinical tropical medicine.   He has approximately 2 years of experience in clinical medicine and research in international settings as a Rotary Scholar studying malaria in the highland rainforests of Tanzania, a MAP-Reader's Digest International Fellow in Mwandi Mission Hospital in Zambia, and in mission hospitals and clinical research units in Brazil. He is currently an assistant professor at Duke University in the division of infectious diseases. Funded originally by a K23 and currently an R01 Award from the National Institutes of Health, he has published over 55 peer reviewed original manuscripts. He was recently awarded Young Investigator Awards from the American Federation of Medical Research and the American Society for Microbiology, as well as the GlaxoSmithKline Junior Faculty Award. His current research interests involve the host-pathogen interaction in gram-positive bacteria.