Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Montefiore Medical Center
111 East 210th Street
Bronx
NYUSA
10467
Biographical Sketch: Dr Neel Gandhi graduated from Brown University School of Medicine in 1999 and received post-graduated training in Internal Medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Clinical Epidemiology at the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale University and Infectious Diseases at Emory University. He is now an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center.
Dr Gandhi has been engaged in clinical research in TB/HIV co-infection since 1998. He has been working with the Tugela Ferry Care and Research (TF CARES) Collaboration, a team of researchers from the US and South Africa investigating the converging epidemics of HIV and tuberculosis in South Africa, since 2002. In November 2006, he was the lead author on a study describing high rates of mortality in patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) and HIV co-infection. This study has been credited for uncovering a rapidly expanding multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB and XDR TB epidemic in South Africa.
He and TF CARES continue to focus on the converging epidemics of drug-resistant TB and HIV in South Africa. A particular emphasis of our work is on elucidating the role that primary transmission is playing in the expansion of this epidemic and on developing and implementing infection control programs to prevent it.