Biosketch

Henry Masur earned his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at New York Hospital and Johns Hopkins Hospital. Following a fellowship at Cornell in the Division of Infectious Disease and Internal Medicine, he served as an instructor and assistant professor of medicine in the division at Cornell from 1978 to 1982.

He joined the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center as assistant chief of the Critical Care Medicine Department in 1982 and was appointed chief of the department in 1989. During his tenure as chief, he was awarded the Clinical Center Director’s Award for outstanding departmental management.

Dr. Masur has published widely on HIV-related opportunistic infections, including Pneumocystis pneumonia. He has conducted extensive research on emerging infections such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the West Nile virus.

In 2002, Dr. Masur presented the NIH Astute Clinician lecture, “AIDS: A Window on Infectious Diseases.” This annual lecture honors a scientist whose clinical investigation of unusual occurrences has contributed to important research.

Dr. Masur currently holds several faculty appointments, serving as an attending physician in the Infectious Disease Section of Medstar-Washington Hospital Center, clinical professor of anesthesiology at University of Maryland, and clinical professor of medicine at George Washington University.

Selected Honors and Awards

Infectious Disease Society of America, 2002-2008; (Council 2001-2004, Vice President 2004-2005, President Elect 2005-2006, President 2006-2007, Past President 2007-2008); Zucker Family Lectureship, Weill College of Medicine, Cornell University; 2003; Astute Clinician Lecture, National Institutes of Health, 2002; Kirby Lectureship, University of Washington, 2002; Taubin Memorial Lectureship, Children’s National Medical Center, 2002; International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care Hero Award (41 named internationally), 2000; Clinical Center Director’s Award for Outstanding Departmental Management, 1998; Association of American Physicians, 1993; American Society of Clinical Investigation, 1988.

Selected Publications

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Parrillo JE, Masur, H., editor. The Critically Ill Immunosuppressed Patient. Rockville, MD: Aspen Publishers, Inc.; 1987.

Susla G, Masur H, Cunnion RE, Suffredini AF, Ognibene FP, Hoffman WD, Shelhamer JH. The Handbook of Critical Care Medicine. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins; 1994, 1998 & 2006 (in preparation) editions

Dolin R, Masur H, Saag MS, editors. AIDS Therapy. Churchill Livingstone; 1999, 2002, & 2006 (in preparation) editions.

Helwig-Larsen J, Masur H. Drug Resistance Handbook. Mayers DL, editor: J Sobel Humana Press; 2006, in press.

Masur H. Approach to the symptomatic patient with HIV infection. In: Kelly WH, editor. Textbook of Internal Medicine. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott; 2003.

Masur H. Critically ill immunosuppressed host. In: Parrillo J, Dellinger RP, editors. Critical Care Medicine: Principles of Diagnosis and Management. Volume Chapter 54. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, Mosby Publishing Company; 2003.

Masur H. Approach to the Patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Clinical Features. In: Sherwood LG, Bartlett JG, Blacklow NR, editors. Infectious Diseases. 3rd ed. New York: Lippincott Williams and Williams; 2004. p 958-969.

Masur H. Treatment of HIV Infection and AIDS. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, editors. Cecil Textbook of Medicine. 22nd ed. Philadelphia: Saunders; 2004. p 2183-2191.

Masur H. Management of Opportunistic Infections Associated with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection. In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, editors. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 6th ed. Volume 1. Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone; 2005. p 1679-1706.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Sklar P, Masur H. HIV infection and cardiovascular disease-is there really a link? N Engl J Med 2003;349:2065-2067.

Benson CA, Kaplan JE, Masur H, Pau A, Holmes KK. Treating opportunistic infections among HIV-exposed and infected children: recommendations from CDC, the National Institutes of Health, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. MMWR Recomm Rep 2004;53:1-112

Sklar PA, Masur H, Grubb JR, Voell J, Witek J, Ono A, Freed EO, Maldarelli F. Pravastatin does not have a consistent antiviral effect in chronically HIV-infected individuals on antiretroviral therapy. AIDS 2005;19:1109-1111.