Dr. Britigan received his B.A. from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 1976 and his M.D. from The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA in 1980. He completed internal medicine at residency Rhode Island Hospital (1980-3) and a clinical and research fellowship in infectious diseases at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a member of the faculty of the University of Iowa from 1987-2004, serving as the Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases there from 1994-2004. In 2004 Dr. Britigan became the Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Cincinnati and in July 2011 joined UNMC as the Stokes-Shackleford Professor and Dean of the UNMC College of Medicine. Dr. Britigan’s research focuses on defining the role of oxygen radical production and iron metabolism in host-pathogen interactions and in inflammatory tissue injury. A variety of pathogens have been the target of these studies, but much of his recent work has centered on Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
This article was originally published February 15, 2012
