Associate Director of Resources and Services
Starting in June 2024, Kevin Messacar, M.D., Ph.D., will serve as associate director of CCTSI Resources and Services. In this role, he will work closely with Wendy Kohrt, PhD, director of resources and services, to oversee and integrate many crucial CCTSI resources, including Research Studios, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD), the Clinical Translational Research Center (CTRC) Network, Dissemination and Implementation Core, and CCTSI Marketing and Communications. Dr. Messacar is an associate professor of pediatrics and a practicing pediatric infectious disease consultant at Children's Hospital Colorado. He completed his pediatric residency and infectious disease fellowship training at the University of Colorado and has been providing expert clinical care to children for 15 years. He recently completed a Ph.D. in clinical investigations at the University of Colorado Graduate School.
Dr. Messacar's research seeks to improve diagnosis, management, and prevention of central nervous system infections, including meningitis, encephalitis, and myelitis – with a focus on enteroviruses and other emerging infectious diseases. He is currently the principal investigator of the PREMISE (Pandemic REsponse REpository: Microbial and Immunologic Surveillance and Epidemiology) study, a multicenter pandemic preparedness program with the NIAID Vaccine Research Center, seeking to create an immunologic biorepository to be used for development of on-the-shelf countermeasures against emerging pathogens with pandemic potential...
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