Peter Chin-Hong is Associate Dean for Regional Campuses. He is a medical educator who specializes in treating infectious diseases, particularly infections that develop in patients who have suppressed immune systems, such as solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients and HIV+ organ transplant recipients. He directs the immunocompromised host infectious diseases program at UCSF. His research focuses on donor derived infections in transplant recipients and molecular diagnostics of infectious diseases in patients with suppressed immune systems. He went to Brown University for his undergraduate and medical degrees. He has earned many awards at UCSF including the UCSF Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2009.
You can see his full bio at https://profiles.ucsf.edu/peter.chin-hong#narrative.
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