Robert Schooley MD is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. After internal medicine training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, he completed Clinical and Research Fellowships at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School in 1981 where he rose to the
rank of Associate Professor of Medicine before being recruited to the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1990 where he served as Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases from 1990 – 2004. He served as Principal Investigator of the NIAID’s AIDS Clinical Trials Group from 1995 – 2002. He has served as coordinator of the ACTG’s International Program since 2002. He is now Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Diego where he also serves as Vice Chair of Academic Affairs for the Department of Medicine. His research interests are broad and include viral diagnostics, pathogenesis and therapy.