Caryn Bern, MD, spoke at this year’s Franklin A. Neva Memorial Lecture. Her talk covered the epidemiologist’s perspective on visceral leishmaniasis transmission dynamics and elimination as a public health problem.
The Dr. Franklin A. Neva Memorial Fund honors the legacy of Franklin A. Neva, M.D., a renowned virologist, parasitologist, clinician and former director of the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). This memorial fund is made possible thanks to the generous support of Dr. Neva’s family. The lecture is sponsored by the NIAID Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases and the FNIH.
This Year’s Speaker
Caryn Bern is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. She holds a doctor of medicine from Stanford University School of Medicine and a master’s in public health from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. She is board-certified in internal medicine. Dr. Bern was a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1990 to 2011 and worked for 15 years in the CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria before moving to UCSF.
Dr. Bern has worked on the epidemiology and control of visceral leishmaniasis since 1999 with collaborations in Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia, and South Sudan. She is a member of the WHO Regional Technical Advisory Group on kalaazar and malaria elimination in South-East Asia Region. Dr. Bern’s current research focuses on diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology and control of Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis.
Past Lectures
Since 2012, the fund has supported at least six Franklin A. Neva Memorial Lectures at LPD.
April 21, 2021
The Conundrum of Calcified Parenchymal Neurocysticercosis
Theodore E. Nash, M.D.
Principal Investigator, Retired
NIH/NIAID/LPD
May 25, 2017
Cystic Echinococcosis—Staging Matters
Thomas Junghanss, M.D
Professor and Head, Clinical Tropical Medicine Section, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; Chair, WHO Informal Working Group on Echinococcosis, Geneva, Switzerland
March 24, 2016
Dissecting the Pathophysiology of Cerebral Malaria
Karl Seydel, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Michigan State University and Director, Molecular and Genomics Laboratory, University of Malawi College of Medicine
February 25, 2015
Hector H. Garcia, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Cysticercosis Unit, Institute of Neurological Sciences
University Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
December 4, 2013
Gary Weil, M.D.
Professor of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine
December 12, 2012
The Influence of HTLV-1 in the Immunologic Response and Clinical Manifestations of Helminthic Infection
Edgar M. Carvalho, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine and Clinical Immunology Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
Background
Since 2012, the Fund has supported the Franklin A. Neva Memorial Lecture on a topic related to clinical tropical medicine and associated pathophysiology, as part of the LPD’s ongoing lecture series.
It has also supported an annual session held by the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases and the Greater Washington Infectious Disease Society that is devoted to parasitic or tropical medicine, featuring discussions of individual cases.
Media
- NIH (October 26, 2011): NIH remembers Dr. Franklin A. Neva.
- The Lancet (December 10, 2011): Franklin A. Neva
- NIH Catalyst (May 5, 2005): 30+ Years in the LPD: Students/ Colleagues Honor Franklin Neva
Contacts
- Please contact the Advancement Office for more information at [email protected] or 301-402-4976.