Monday November 9th at 11 AM in the Mt. Baker Room
You are invited to hear Dr. David Horne discuss the problem of tuberculosis, one of the three big killers world wide–TB, HIV-AIDS and Malaria. What are origins of TB? How did it affect cultures, art, literature and opera? Why was Seattle considered a “tuberculosis swamp” in the early 1900’s and how did the city deal with this? Is it still a local problem?
David Horne, MD, MPH is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Neurology at the University of Washington. He is an active clinician with a general pulmonary clinic and expertise in non-tuberculous mycobacteria and bronchiectasis. Dr. Horne is a physician-scientist with an active research program in tuberculosis, with particular interest in TB aerobiology and infectiousness, asymptomatic TB and TB pathogenesis. His current studies are based in Nairobi, Kenya in collaboration with colleagues from the Kenya Medical Research Institute. He is a “warm-line” faculty member of the Curry International TB Center of UCSF, a CDC TB Center of Excellence, where he provides regional consultations on the TB.