Faculty & Staff
Dr. Rosenthal, PhD, Professor & Certificate Program Director
Dr Rosenthal, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, is an AIDS/cancer researcher who has focused on the association of herpesviruses with human cancer as well as their role as co-factors in the progression of AIDS. At Georgetown, Dr Rosenthal teaches virology to medical, physiology, and graduate students and directs an interdisciplinary biomedical sciences graduate program. In August, 1990, he organized the 15 th International Herpesvirus Workshop at Georgetown attended by over 800 researchers. Dr Rosenthal’s laboratory most recently has identified the kaposin oncogene from HHV-8 and is studying its role in Kaposi’s sarcoma. In 1994, Dr Rosenthal founded the Global AIDS and Cancer Foundation (GACF), a non-profit organization dedicated to partnership in research, training, and public health. A key goal of the foundation is promoting AIDS awareness among DC area high school students. Since 1997, GACF has sponsored annual AIDS awareness workshops for metropolitan DC area high school students and teachers. Since then, over 1,300 students and teachers have come to Georgetown University Medical Center, have participated in these workshops, and have taken back with them the knowledge they have gained to set up their own in-school AIDS awareness programs. In September, 2002, Dr Rosenthal, along with Dr Lucey, organized the first GU/MedStar Workshop on Bioterrorism attended by over 500 medical, physiology, nursing, and graduate students. More recently, Dr. Rosenthal has organized a Special Series on Biodefense, which includes eight expert presentations as part of the popular Mini Medical School forum for Georgetown Medical Center faculty, staff, and students, as well as for the community at large. Dr. Rosenthal is also Program Director for the MS in Biohazardous Threat Agents & Emerging Infectious Diseases and for the on-campus certificate program in Biodefense & Public Policy.
Richard A. Calderone, PhD; Professor & Chair of Microbiology & Immunology
Dr. Calderone’s research laboratory at Georgetown focuses on the recognition of mammalian cells and signaling events by the human pathogen, Candida Albicans. The research team of PostDoctoral Fellows and PhD students uses biochemical, immunological and molecular approaches to study these events. Signaling proteins, such as the two component, histidine kinases, are being studied at the molecular level. This involves isolation of encoding genes, gene characterization and the construction of knock-out strains to study gene function. Dr. Calderone received his doctoral degree from West Virginia University. He is currently Program Director of the MS program in Biomedical Science Policy & Advocacy as well as Director of the Georgetown University Center for Infectious Disease. He teaches and directs a number of graduate courses, including Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis, Human & Microbial Genetics, Bacteriology & Mycology, Immunology, and Public Policy for Scientists.
William A. Fonzi, PhD; Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Graduate Studies Director
William Fonzi received his doctoral degree from Texas A&M University. He is the primary academic advisor for MS and PhD students in Microbiology & Immunology and Graduate Studies Director for all programs in the department. His current research interests include identification and characterization of the genes and gene products that contribute to the virulence of Candida albicans using molecular genetic techniques.
Dr. Collmann
Jeff Collmann, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Georgetown University, obtained his Ph.D in Social Anthropology from the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia. Understanding the effect of bureaucracy and other complex forms of organization on everyday life constitutes his main intellectual interest. The results of his research on social change among Australian Aborigines have been published in numerous articles and as a book, Fringedwellers and Welfare: the Aboriginal response to bureaucracy. Since returning to the United States in 1980, he has worked as an administrator and researcher on issues in high medical technology. While at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, he managed the first clinical Positron Emission Tomography Center and edited Clinical Positron Emission Tomography with his colleagues at UTMCK. He completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Medical Ethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee that produced published research work on the social organization of academic biotechnology laboratories. He joined the Department of Radiology, Georgetown University in January 1992. He served as the team leader for the data security and patient confidentiality section of Project Phoenix, a NLM funded project on telemedicine in hemodialysis at Georgetown University. He serves as a medical ethicist for the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Ft. Detrick, Maryland as part of the Defense Health Information Assurance Program. In this capacity, he functions as an advisor to the HIPAA compliance effort of the Department of Defense. He also functions as an advisor on health information assurance to the Air Force Surgeon General. He serves as editor of The CPRI Toolkit: Managing Information Security in Health Care and lectures widely on health information assurance. Other courses he teaches at Georgetown University include anthropology of medicine, science and technology and Australian culture.
Dr. Lucey
Dr. Lucey graduated from Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School. He completed his Internal Residency training at the University of California San Francisco, and his Fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Masters of Public Health at Harvard. Dr Lucey served as an attending physician at the NIH and at the National Naval Medical Center. At the FDA Office of Vaccines Dr Lucey was the medical officer for vaccines against anthrax, botulinum toxin, and vaccinia-vectored HIV vaccines. During the anthrax attack of 2001 Dr Lucey was the Director of the Infectious Disease Service at the Washington Hospital Center, where he worked with the DC Hospital Association, DC Department of Health, and the Department of Defense to help coordinate a regional response. Since January 2002 Dr Lucey has organized monthly regional meetings on bioterrorism preparedness and contributed to the development of the smallpox vaccination program. Dr Lucey is co-organizer of the Georgetown University/MedStar Bioterrorism Workshop.
Neal Pollard, JD
Mr. Pollard serves on the adjunct faculty of Georgetown University. He develops and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in technology, homeland security, and intelligence for the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Department of Science, Technology, and International Affairs; the School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology; and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. He is a faculty member of the Georgetown University Biosecurity Institute, and is chair of Georgetown's Homeland Security 2015 project. Mr. Pollard has lectured or published for Oklahoma University, George Mason University, the US Department of Defense, the US Department of Justice, the US Intelligence Community, the National Defense University, the US Joint Military Intelligence College, the National Research Council, the British and Swedish Ministries of Defence, the Swedish Agency for Civil Emergency Planning, the Swedish Confederation of Employers, and numerous academic journals and conferences. He has authored several monographs, and is currently co-authoring a case-book on homeland security law, with Prof. John Norton Moore.
