Researchers
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| Specialty | --Tuberculosis
--Implementation Science --Human-centered design --TB care casecade --Quality of TB care --MDR/XDR TB clinical treatment outcomes |
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| Science Interest (Past) |
Christopher completed his undergraduate degree in international health at the University of Pittsburgh where he went on complete his MD. He received his masters in tropical medicine and international health at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain. He completed his internal medicine residency and pulmonary/critical care fellowship at UCSF. He has a long history working in global health and global health research largely in the fields of public health. Since finishing his clinical training his research has shifted to focus on clinical and implementation science research. | ||||
| Science Interest (Current) |
Christopher Berger, MD, MSIMT is a clinical fellow in the UCSF Division of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, clinically based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. His research focuses on improving tuberculosis screening, diagnosis, and treatment programs globally through the use of implementation science and human-centered design principles. He works with Dr. Adithya Cattamanchi on projects in the Philippines to improve the diagnostic and clinical tools used in MDR and XDR TB and in Uganda designing improved versions of the globally utilized “Directly Observed Therapy” toolkit. | ||||
| Science Interest (Future) |
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| Website / Contact | UCSF Center for Tuberculosis - http://tb.ucsf.edu Center for Vulnerable Populations - https://cvp.ucsf.edu/ |
