David Chaplin

BIOGRAPHY

David D. Chaplin, M.D., Ph.D., is chairman of the UAB Department of Microbiology. Before coming to UAB in the spring of 2001, Dr. Chaplin served as professor of medicine, genetics, and molecular microbiology in the department of internal medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Dr. Chaplin joined Washington University in 1984 as an assistant professor of medicine and molecular microbiology. In 1995, he was named professor of medicine, genetics and molecular microbiology. Chaplin received a medical degree and a Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology from Washington University in 1980. He did his residency in internal medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas and then pursued postdoctoral training in genetics at Harvard University.

He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He also belongs to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, and the American Association of Immunologists.