Christopher W. Woods
Wolfgang Joklik Distinguished Professor of Global Health, Duke University
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Bio
Dr. Woods is the Executive Director of the Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health; Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Diagnostic Innovation (CIDDI); professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pathology at Duke University; and an adjunct professor in the Emerging Infections Program at the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School. Clinically, he serves as Chief of Infectious Diseases Durham VA Health System. Dr. Woods is a co-founder of Predigen, Inc., and currently serving as Acting Chief Medical Officer for Biomeme, Inc.
Dr. Woods has published over 280 peer-reviewed articles and has a particular interest in the diagnostic capacity in the developing world and the epidemiology of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. As an infectious diseases clinician and medical microbiologist, his approach to host genomic response has been called a paradigm shift in the field of infectious disease diagnostics.