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

John D. Hamilton, MD

Duke University Medical Center

Dr. Hamilton is professor of medicine, chief of the Adult Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health at Duke University, and director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute's Division of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Hamilton's background includes basic research (cytomegalovirus latency) and clinical research, including clinical trials [hepatitis B virus (HBV) hyperimmune globulin after needlesticks; HBV vaccine in dialysis patients, staff, and other healthcare workers; and HIV treatment trials]. These have been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and private industry. Dr. Hamilton served as cochair of a large clinical trial comparing early versus later zidovudine treatment in patients with symptomatic HIV infection.

He has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and single-authored the book Cytomegalovirus and Immunity . In 2000, he was awarded the Gorgas Medal for his work on hepatitis and HIV by the Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S. (AMSUS). He was a member of the FCCSET Working Group on HIV Vaccine Development of the Committee on Life Sciences & Health, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President; the Anti-Viral Drugs Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA); and the VA Chief Medical Directors Steering Committee on AIDS.

Dr. Hamilton was the director of the Durham VA Research Center on HIV and AIDS, 1 of 4 funded nationally from 1988 to 2003. His experience in the training of clinical fellows for careers in academic medicine spans more than 30 years. As the program director of the Interdisciplinary Research Training Program in AIDS (1990 to 2003), he demonstrated his ability to effectively coordinate a productive training program in basic and clinical research within the matrix of a diverse and accomplished research environment at Duke. Of the more than 30 trainees who have completed the program, all published one or more papers on their work as trainees, and 90% remain in science and collectively have successfully competed for more than 25 federal grants. In addition, he was codirector of the Minority International Research Training Program (Fogarty International Center), which supported more than 60 undergraduate and graduate students conducting research abroad from 1995 to 1999. Dr. Hamilton is presently director of the Mentored Clinical Research Scholar Program, an NIH-funded clinical research training program across all clinical disciplines at Duke.