Brian Blackburn

Clinical Focus

• Infectious Disease
• Infectious Diseases

Administrative Appointments

• Co-Director, Clinical Services, Stanford Univ Division of Infectious Diseases (2008 - present)
• Committee member, Stanford Internal Medicine Intern Selection Committee (2005 - present)
• Member, Stanford Infectious Diseases Fellowship Selection Panel (2005 - present)
• Committee member, Stanford Internal Medicine Residency Review Commitee (2005 - present)
• Committee member, Stanford Pharmacy and Therapeutics Antibiotic Subcommittee (2005 - present)
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Honors and Awards

• Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford School of Medicine (2008)
• Distinguished Service to Housestaff Education, Stanford Dept of Medicine, Chief Residents (2008)
• Vosti Award - Excellence in Teaching, Stanford Division of Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine (2007)
• Exceptional Preceptor Award, Ambulatory Medicine Clerkship, Stanford University Dept of Medicine (2007)
• Amstrong Award - Excellence in Patient Care, Stanford Dept of Medicine (2000)

Professional Education

• Fellowship: Stanford University Medical Center, CA (2002)
• Board Certification: Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine (2000)
• Residency: SUMC - Graduate Medical Education, CA (2000)
• Internship: SUMC - Graduate Medical Education, CA (1998)
• Medical Education: Chicago Medical School, IL (1997)

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Medicine
• Infectious Diseases

Community & International Work

• Evaluating and Financing ITNs in Orissa, India, Orissa State, India 
• Forest Conversion and the Changing Epidemiological Environment in Southeast Asia, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo 
• Epideimiology of Toxoplasmosis in Pregnant Women - Cali, Colombia, Cali, Colombia 
• Integration of insecticide-treated bednet distribution and mass drug administration in Nigeria, Nigeria 
• Schistosomiasis, strongyloidiasis: presumptive treatment among Sudanese Lost Boys and Somali Bantus, Sudan, Kenya, Phoenix 

Research Interests

My interests include parasitology and international health; I have investigated cryptosporidium and angiostrongylus outbreaks; schistosoma and strongyloides seroprevalence in refugees, and the means of distribution and subsequent impact of insecticide-treated bednets for malaria and filariasis prevention in Nigeria and India. In addition, I work on toxoplasmosis epidemiology in Colombia, and the impact of deforestation on the epidemiology of vector-borne infectious diseases in Indonesian Borneo

Publications

• High prevalence and presumptive treatment of schistosomiasis and strongyloidiasis among African refugees Blackburn BG*, Posey DL*, Weinberg M, Flagg EW, Ortega L, Wilson M, Secor WE, Sanders-Lewis K, Won K, Maguire JH "Clin Infect Dis" 2007 : (45) : 1310-15
• Distribution of Eosinophilic Meningitis Cases Attributable to Angiostrongylus cantonensis, Hawaii Hochberg NS, Park SY, Blackburn BG, Sejvar JJ, Gaynor K, Chung H, Leniek K, Herwaldt BL, Effler PV "Emerg Infect Dis" 2007 : (13) : 1675-1680
• Successful integration of insecticide-treated bed net distribution with mass drug administration in Central Nigeria. Blackburn BG, Eigege A, Gotau H, Gerlong G, Miri E, Hawley WA, Mathieu E, Richards F "Am J Trop Med Hyg" 2006 ; 4 (75) : 650-5
• Urban lymphatic filariasis in central Nigeria. Terranella A, Eigiege A, Gontor I, Dagwa P, Damishi S, Miri E, Blackburn B, McFarland D, Zingeser J, Jinadu MY, Richards FO "Ann Trop Med Parasitol" 2006 ; 2 (100) : 163-72
• Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis Associated with Consumption of Ozonated Apple Cider Blackburn BG, Mazurek J, Hlavsa M, Park J, Tillapaw M, Parrish M, Salehi E, Franks W, Koch E, Smith F, Xiao L, Arrowood M, Hill V, da Silva A, Jones J "Emerg Infec Dis" 2006 : (12) : 684-686