The Health Science Center’s pathology department will welcome distinguished professor David H. Walker, M.D., to the eighth annual Frank M. Townsend, M.D., Lecture, which will take place at 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 4, in Room 409L of the School of Medicine building.
Dr. Walker is a professor and the Carmage and Martha Walls Distinguished Chair in Tropical Diseases in the department of pathology at The University of Texas Medical Branch. His presentation is titled “Emerging Infectious Diseases: Why There Will Always Be More Coming.”
Dr. Walker’s studies in emerging infectious diseases have led to investigations related to the production of vaccines against E. canis (a tick-borne disease common in dogs) and the development of new diagnostic tests utilizing genes identified and patented by his group. His investigations of the 1979 outbreak of anthrax in Sverdlovsk, Russia revealed it to have been due to inhalational anthrax.
Join colleagues to learn more at the Frank M. Townsend, M.D., Lecture, which commemorates the distinguished career of Frank Marion Townsend, M.D., chairman of pathology from 1972 to 1986 at the Health Science Center. Dr. Townsend died Oct. 31, 2001. His legacy continues to serve as a model of excellence and achievement.
