Kevin Winthrop, MD, MPH

Kevin Winthrop, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health and Professor of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, at Oregon Health and Science University is a former staff infectious disease epidemiologist from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Tuberculosis Elimination. He has co-authored over 135 publications, many detailing epidemiologic and clinical aspects of opportunistic infections associated with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, particularly those related to biologic immunosuppressive therapies commonly used to treat such diseases. He has served as a primary or senior investigator in many of these clinical and epidemiologic studies, and he has collaborated closely with the rheumatology community in the evaluation and prevention of opportunistic infections in that setting. Clinically, he provides regional consultations for mycobacterial diseases and other chronic infections, including those that complicate inflammatory diseases.