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Figure 1. About W. Conrad Liles. Dr. Liles received his graduate education from University of Washington School of Medicine and Department of Pharmacology (1987), and postgraduate training and medical residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital (1987–90), and University of Washington Medical Center (1990-94). He has held faculty positions at University of Washington since 1996 with an intermission as a Professor of Medicine at University of Toronto (2006-12). Currently, he is a Professor of Medicine and Associate Chair of Medicine at the University of Washington, and serves as the Director of the Center for Lung Biology and Co-Director of the Molecular Medicine Training Program. He is also an Attending Physician at the University of Washington Medical Center. Dr. Liles has received numerous honors and awards including the Western Society for Clinical Investigation Outstanding Investigator Award (2004) and was elected to the Association of American Physicians (AAP) in 2014. He has authored more than 250 articles and book chapters. His research focuses on diverse aspects of host response to life-threatening infections, including sepsis, hemolytic-uremic syndrome and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, and the pathogenesis of and host response to malaria.
