Corey Casper, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Allergy & Infectious Diseases
Adjunct Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Global Health
University of Washington
Assistant Member, Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Institute
Director, Uganda Program on Cancer & Infectious Diseases
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington, United States
Dr. Casper received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1997, followed by an internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco. Moving onto the University of Washington, Dr. Casper completed a Masters in Public Health degree in 2002 and his Infectious Disease fellowship training. He then joined the faculty in 2003. He currently is an Associate Professor of Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health at the University of Washington. He’s is also an Assistant Member at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute.
Dr. Casper divides his time between research, teaching and clinical care. Dr. Casper cares for patients at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and Harborview Medical Center, where he specializes in infections among persons with impaired immunity due to HIV or cancer. He also directs the Castleman Disease Clinic, where over 200 patients with this rare disease receive expert consultation. At the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, he directs the Infection Control Program, which has developed novel methods for the prevention of respiratory virus infections among patients with impaired immunity and new methods for tracking and reducing healthcare-associated infections. At the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Dr. Casper leads the Uganda Program on Cancer and Infectious Diseases. This program, in partnership with the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala, conducts research aimed at identifying how infections which cause cancer are acquired, defining strategies for the treatment and prevention of infection-related cancer, and training African and US health care providers to be the next generation of cancer researchers and care providers.
Video Interview with Corey Casper, recorded at the ICDO Summit 2009:
Audio Interview with Corey Casper, recorded at the ICDO Summit 2009: