Contact Information
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| (left to right) Esmie Kamanga, Charles van der Horst, Lise Hyde, Charles Chasela |
U.S. contact
Charles van der Horst, MD
Center for Infectious Diseases
130 Mason Farm Rd, 2nd Floor
CB# 7030
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7030
(919) 843-4375
charles_vanderhorst@med.unc.edu
Malawi contact
Peter Kazembe, MB, ChB
Kamuzu Central Hospital, Bottom Hospital Recruiting
Lilongwe, Malawi
265-888-822-447
pnkazembe@baylor-malawi.org
Investigators
Study Chair: Charles van der Horst, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Principal Investigator: Denise J Jamieson, MD, MPH, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Principal Investigator: Peter Kazembe, MB, ChB, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi
Study Team
Charles Chasela, CO, MPH - Project Coordinator
Mina Hosseinipour, MD, MPH - Clinical Director, UNC Project-Malawi and independent medical monitor for the BAN study
Zebrone Kacheche - QA/QC Coordinator
Deborah Kamwendo, MS - Laboratory Director, UNC Project-Malawi
Dumbani Kayira, MBBCh - Clinician
Francis Martinson, MBBCh, PhD - Director, UNC Project-Malawi
Innocent Mofolo - Associate Director, UNC Project-Malawi
Alice Soko - Head Nurse
Gerald Tegha - Lab Manager
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Irving Hoffman, PA, MPH - Director of International Operations, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases
Michael Hudgens - Study Statistician
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Yusuf Ahmed, BM - Project Officer
Sascha Ellington, MSPH - Study Coordinator
Athena Kourtis, MD, PhD, MPH - Investigator
Jeffrey Wiener, PhD - Statistician
Principia International
Rodney Knight, PhD - Data Manager

