Conference Faculty

Alan J. Magill MD, FACP

Dr. Alan J. Magill is the Director of the Division of Experimental Therapeutics, at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) in Silver Spring, Maryland. He also serves as the Research Coordinator for the Leishmania Research Program and the anti-Malaria Drug Research and Development Program for the Military Infectious Disease Research Program. He is a graduate of the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, entering the US Army in 1984. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, and fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC in 1992. He then joined the Department of Immunology at the WRAIR as an infectious disease officer. In 1996 he became the Chief, Department of Parasitology, at the Naval Medical Research Center Detachment (NMRCD), Lima, Peru. He conducted clinical trials in the Peruvian Amazon Basin to support the development of new generation malaria diagnostics, vaccines and prophylactic anti-malarial drugs. He also conducted therapeutic efficacy trials that helped guide Peruvian national anti-malarial control policies. On return from Peru, he spent 2 years as the Head, Clinical Research, of the Malaria Vaccine Development Unit of the NIH before returning to the WRAIR in the fall of 2001. He has had extensive international research experience in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Current interests include the ethics and practicalities of clinical research in the developing world, translational clinical research for anti-malarial drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics and product development efforts for new diagnostic and therapeutic solutions for cutaneous leishmaniasis. He is an Attending Physician at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, President of the Clinical Group of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, President-Elect of the International Society of Travel Medicine, and an invited participant and speaker at numerous national and international meetings and courses. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD. He is the author of 55 peer-reviewed publications, over 85 abstracts, and 9 book chapters.