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Dr. Parsonnet is an Infectious Diseases clinician and epidemiologist whose research focuses on the role of infections in chronic disease. Her early work was pivotal in establishing H. pylori as a cause of gastric cancer and gastric lymphoma as well as protective effects of infections against esophageal diseases. More recently, she has focused on how exposures to infectious agents affects metabolism, growth and human body temperature. Dr. Parsonnet also has clinical interests in tuberculosis and in coccidioidomycosis. Dr. Parsonnet has had more than 30 years of continuous NIH funding. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, Association of American Physicians, American Epidemiological Society, the American Society for Clinical Investigation and is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Outside of Stanford, Dr. Parsonnet is on the Board of Directors of Doctors for America and is President of SAFE, an NGO of healthcare providers dedicated to reducing firearms injuries and deaths.