Kenneth Castro
Interview with Dr. Kenneth Castro
Transcription
a transcription of this interview.
Biographical Note
Professor Kenneth G. Castro, MD is a physician-scientist trained in epidemiology, with a specialty in internal medicine and subspecialty in infectious diseases. Before accepting a full-time faculty position at Emory University in 2014, his career experience included 31 years of service at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with promotion to Assistant Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps. Starting with CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service in 1983, he contributed to the early epidemiological characterization and description of risk factors associated with HIV/AIDS, and later spearheaded the development and publication of the 1993 classification system for HIV and expanded case definition for AIDS. Subsequently, he contributed to diverse outbreak investigations of HIV-associated multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, and was selected to assume leadership positions as Director, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (1993-2013), and Acting Director, Division of HIV/AIDS (2013-2014).