By Duke Medicine News and Communications

DURHAM, N.C. Mary E. Klotman, M.D., chairwoman of the Department of Medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine, has been elected as one of 70 new members to the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM). Klotman is an expert in infectious diseases and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Election to the Institute of Medicine is considered one of the highest honors in medicine, said Nancy C. Andrews, M.D., Ph.D., dean of Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Klotmans election is a notable achievement and recognition of her important contributions as a leader and as a physician-scientist focused on the molecular pathogenesis of HIV-1 infection.

Klotman attended Duke University for both her undergraduate degree in zoology (1976) and her medical degree (1980) and then completed her internal medicine residency and a fellowship in infectious diseases in the Department of Medicine at Duke.

She started her career at Duke in 1985 as an associate faculty member in medicine, before moving to the National Institutes of Health, where she was a member of the Public Health Service. At NIH, she trained and worked in the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology under the direction of renowned HIV researcher Robert C. Gallo, M.D.

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Klotman, chair of Medicine, Named to Institute of Medicine