Transplant Infections (PDF)

Dr. Per Ljungman is a professor of hematology and the head researcher of the Per Ljungman Group within the Karolinkska Institutet of Sweden, where he studies antiviral agents and vaccines as well as immune responses to viral infections in the immunocompromised host. He is a visiting professor at the University of Florida and practices medicine at the Karolinska University Hospital. He completed his PhD in virology and his MD in medical studies at the Karolinska Institutet before researching infectious diseases at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he remained for over a decade. He returned to the Karolinska Institutet in 1996 as an Associate Professor and later served as the Head of the Department of Hematology for four years. He has collaborated on over 300 original papers and has published four editions of Transplant Infections, which remains the only comprehensive book of its kind.Dr. David R. Snydman is the Chief of the Division of Geographic Medicine andInfectious Diseases at Tufts University School of Medicine, where he focuses on infectious diseases, cytomegaloviruses, and transplant infectious diseases. He earned his MD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972 and immediately received his first of twenty prestigious honors and awards. He also trained with the Centers for Disease Control and the Tufts Medical Center and has contributed to over 200 publications.Dr. Michael Boeckh is a professor of medicine at the University of Washington. He is also the Head of the Infectious Disease Sciences Program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and an attending physician at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Dr. Boeckh's primary focuses are infectious diseases in the immunocompromised host, respiratory viruses, and transplantation infections. He completed both a PhD and MD from Freie Universität Berlin before accepting his Infectious Disease Fellowship at the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1992. Over thecourse of his career, he has