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About Dr Rami Kantor. Dr Kantor graduated as an MD from the Sackler Medical School of Tel Aviv University in Israel, where he also got his Masters in postgraduate internal medicine. He performed his internal medicine residency at the Internal Medicine Department E in the Sheba Medical Center in Israel, his postdoctoral HIV research fellowship at Stanford University in CA, and his postdoctoral clinical infectious diseases fellowship at Brown University in RI. He joined the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Faculty at Brown as an Assistant Professor in 2005, while still an Infectious Diseases fellow, and was promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine in 2011, his present position. Dr Kantor serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the International AIDS Society and of Virulence. He served on several NIH grant review study sections and was recently elected to membership in the NIH AIDS Clinical Studies and Epidemiology Study Section (ACE). He is a member of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group, the WHO HIV Resistance Network and the TREAT Asia Studies to Evaluate Resistance and Quality Assessment Scheme Steering Committees. Dr Kantor’s research focus is on HIV diversity, treatment monitoring, molecular epidemiology, and the evolution of drug resistance to antiretroviral medications, particularly among diverse HIV variants that predominate globally. His research is multidisciplinary and incorporates bioinformatics, sequence and phylogenetic analyses, databases and data management, clinical and basic science research. He directs the Drug Resistance Research Laboratory at The Miriam Hospital and is also a clinician and attends to HIV-infected outpatients and inpatients.
Dr Kantor (far left), his daughter Shir (far right on the bench), Dr Lameck Diero, Dr Kantor’s close collaborator and Chief of Medicine at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya (far left standing, in red and white stripe shirt), Emmanuel Kemboi, Dr Kantor’s research assistant in Kenya (far right), and his extended family and friends in his rural village in Kenya.
