Dr. Richard Kaslow has directed ground-breaking federal and academic research into infectious diseases, including HIV. He graduated from Harvard Medical School and attained board certification in internal medicine, infectious disease, and preventive medicine. For 23 years with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, he conducted cohort studies of HIV and other epidemiologic investigations. Thereafter, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham for 17 years, his teams identified genetic determinants of HIV, hepatitis B vaccine response, and other conditions. As a senior executive at the Veterans Health Administration for the next five years, he oversaw work on epidemiologic issues ranging from pandemic preparedness to health effects of environmental exposure during deployment. He collaborated on more than 250 scholarly publications and continues to edit a widely used textbook on human viral diseases. Dr. Kaslow served as President of the American College of Epidemiology, and in 2009 the American Public Health Association recognized him with the John Snow Award for outstanding contributions to epidemiology.