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Center for Global Health Faculty

Kenrad Nelson

Professor

Kenrad Nelson

Academic Degrees

  • MD

Departmental Affiliation

Departmental Address

Bloomberg E7132A

Contact Information

Phone:
410-955-1296
Fax:
410-955-1836
Link:
SciVal Experts Research Profile

Research and Professional Experience

Research interests include HIV/AIDS, tropical medicine, leprosy, nosocomial infections, hepatitis B, C, and E, infections in drug users, transfusion-transmitted infections, tuberculosis and Penicillium marneffei, viral-induced liver cancer.

Research in populations in the United States, including injection drug users patients with HIV/AIDS, blood donors and transfusion recipients as well as in several international sites, including Thailand, Bangladesh, China, Republic of Georgia.

Keywords

Epidemiology, HIV/AIDS, tropical medicine, leprosy, nosocomial infections, hepatitis, infections in drug users, and tuberculosis.

Honors and Awards

2007 Fellow, American Association for the advancement of Science

2006 – 2007 President, American Epidemiological Society

2005 Present U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF), Recognition Medal, for International Training and Collaboration in Medical Reseaarch with Republic of Georgia

1994 Honorary Doctoral Degree in Public Health, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

1989 Present Delta Omega Academic Honorary Society, Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health

1982 Present Fellow, American Epidemiological Society

1974 Present Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America

Selected Publications

Fwu CW, Chien YC, Nelson KE, Kirk GD, You SL, Kuo HS, Feinleib M, Chen CJ. Mortality after chronic hepatitis B virus infection: a linkage study involving 2 million parous women from Taiwan. J Infect Dis. 2010 Apr 1;201(7):1016-23. PubMed PMID: 20187745.

Tian F, Wang J, Huang Y, Guo X, Yun Z, Yang T, Nelson K, Schreiber GB, Ness P, Shan H. Psychological and behavioural impacts of the 2008 China earthquake on blood donors. Vox Sang. 2010 Mar 1. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20202183.

Nelson KM, Thiede H, Hawes SE, Golden MR, Hutcheson R, Carey JW, Kurth A, Jenkins RA. Why the Wait? Delayed HIV Diagnosis among Men Who Have Sex with Men. J Urban Health. 2010 Feb 26. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20186493.

Fu Y, Wang Y, Xia W, Pybus OG, Qin W, Lu L, Nelson K. New trends of HCV infection in China revealed by genetic analysis of viral sequences determined from first-time volunteer blood donors. J Viral Hepat. 2010 Feb 25. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20196805.

Yang C, Latkin C, Luan R, Nelson K. Condom Use with Female Sex Workers among Male Clients in Sichuan Province, China: The Role of Interpersonal and Venue-Level Factors. J Urban Health. 2010 Feb 9. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20143269.

Kuniholm M, Purcell RH,McQuillanGM, EngleRE,wasley a, Nelson KE.Prevalence ofHepatitis E Virus Infectyions in the United States: day=ta from NHANES III, 1988-1994 JourInfet Dis 20099;200:48-56

Fwu C-W ,Chien Y-C1. Kirk GD,NelsonKE,You S-l,Kuo H-S,feonleib M,Chen ,CJ Hepatitis B virus infection and herpastocellular carcinoma among parous women : A nationwde cohort study,J Nat'l cancer Inst 2009;101:1019-1027

Dhalla S,Nelson KE,Singer J, Poole G HIV vaccine preparedness studies in developing non-organization for economic cooperation and development (non-OECD) countries.AIDS Care 2090;21:335-348

Nelson KE,Costello C,Suriyanon V,Sennun S, Duerr A.Survivalafter HIV-1 subtype E(CRF01A-E) ainfections amongblood donors and thier sposes in NorthernThailand. AIDS 2007;21 (Suppl 6):S47-S54

Nanthachit N,Thaikruea L,Thongsawat S, Leertrakool N,Fongsatidikil L,Ness P, Nelson KE .Evaluation of a multiplex HIV-1,hepatitis C and hapatitisB viurus NAT assay to detect viremic blood donors in Norhhern Thailand.Transfusion 2007;47:1803-1808 6Arcari C.M., Gaydos C.A., Nieto F.J., Krauss M., Nelson K.E. Association of chlamydia pneumoniae IgA and acute myocardial infarction in young males in the U.S. military: importance of timing of exposure measurement. Clinical Infect Dis 2005; 40:1123-30.

Caroline Costello, Kenrad Nelson, Denise Jamieson, Lisa Spacck, Supaluk Sennun, Sodsai Tovanabutra, Kittipong Rungrengthanakit, Vinai Suriyana and Ann Duerr. Predictors of low CD4 count in resource limited settings: based on an antiretroviral-naïve heterosexual Thai population. JAIDS 2005; 39:242-248.

Hiransuthikul N., Nelson K.E., Hiransuthikul P., Vorayingyong Anond, Paewplot R. INH preventive therapy among Thai adult HIV-infected patients. Int JTLD and Lung Dis 2005; 9:270-275.

Vlahov David, Cun-lin Wang, Joseph Bareta, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Kenrad E. Nelson. Mortality risk among new onset injection drug users. Addiction 2004; 99:946-954.

Cun-lin Wang, David Vlahov, Noya Galai, Joseph Bareta, Stephanie A. Strathdee, Kenrad E. Nelson and Timothy R. Sterling. Mortality among HIV-seropositive and seronegative drug users in the HAART Era: Implications for when to initiate therapy. J Infect Dis 2004; 190:1046-54.

Thaikruea L., Nelson K.E., Thongsawat S., Maneekarn N., Netski D., Thomas D.L. Risk factors for hepatitis C virus infection among blood donors in northern Thailand. Transfusion 2004; 44:1433-40.

Nora Chen, Kenrad E. Nelson, Frank J Jenkins, Vinai Suriyanon, Ann Duerr, Caroline Costello, Valerie Robison and Lisa P. Jacobson. Seroprevalence of human herpesvirus-8 infection in northern Thailand. Clin Infect Dis 2004; 39:1052-8.

Kuang S.Y., Lekawanvijit S., Maneekarn N., Thongsawat S., Brodovica K., Nelson K.E., Gropman J.D. Hepatitis B 1762T/1764A mutations, hepatitis C infection and condon 249 P53 mutations in hepatocellular carcinomas from Thailand. Cancer Epid, Biomarkers and Prevention 2005; 14:300-4.

Nelson K.E., Galai N., Safaeian M., Strathdee S.A., Celentano D.D., Vlahov D. Temporal trends in HIV incidence and risk behavior among injection drug users in Baltimore, 1988-1998. Am Jour Epidemiol 2002; 156:641-653.

Nelson KE, Eiumtrakul S, Celentano DD, Beyrer C, Galai N, Kawichai S, Khamboonruang C. HIV infection in young men in northern Thailand, 1991-1998: increasing role of injection drug use. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2002; 29(1):62-8.

Supparatpinyo K., Perriens, J., Nelson K.E., Sirisanthan T. A controlled trial of Itraconazole to prevent relapse of Pencillium marneffei infection in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. New Engl J Med 1998; 339:1739-1743.

Projects

  • Information Field development and validation of a salivary hepatitis E assay in Bangladesh
  • Information Transfusion safety and epidemiology of Infectious markers among blood donors in 6 urban blood banks in China—REDS-2

      
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