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University of British Columbia
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
St. Paul's Hospital, 1081 Burrard Street
Vancouver BC V6Z 1Y6
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604-806-8535 |
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604-806-9044 |
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mtyndall@cfenet.ubc.ca |
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| Biography | |
Dr. Mark Tyndall is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia in the division of Infectious Diseases. He joined the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in 1999 where he is the Program Director for Epidemiology. He graduated from McMaster Medical School in 1985 and completed a residency in Internal Medicine. He then completed an Infectious Diseases Fellowship program at the University of Manitoba that included two years of HIV/AIDS research at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Following this he entered the Doctoral Program in Epidemiology at the School of Public Health at Harvard University where he graduated in 1998. His thesis work was on Health and Human Rights again with fieldwork and data collection based in Kenya and other countries in East Africa. He is currently conducting a number of research projects in Vancouver, including epidemiologic studies of HIV and Hepatitis C transmission, antiretroviral access among injection drug users, and health care utilization among marginalized populations. As a staff physician at St. Paul¡¦s Hospital, he is an active member of the clinical infectious disease service and works as an HIV/AIDS consultant at several downtown health clinics. He recently received a Senior Scholar award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. |
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Epidemiology; Health Care; Infectious Diseases; Medicine; |
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