Stephen Walsh

Dr. Stephen R. Walsh is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Co-Investigator at the NIAID-funded Harvard HIV Vaccine Clinical Trials Unit. His current area of laboratory research focuses on elucidating the role of skin-homing poxvirus-specific T cells in immune responses elicited by MVA and Dryvax. Dr. Walsh is a member of the HVTN Protocol Committee and is the co-chair of HVTN 127/HPTN 087 and HVTN 128.

Clinical Interests

• HIV/AIDS
• Immunocompromised Infectious Disease
• Infection In The Immunocompromised Host
• Infections In Bone Marrow Transplant Patients
• Infections In Organ Transplant Patients
• Infections In Patients With Cancer
• Infections In Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
• Infections In Stem Cell Transplant Recipients
• Infectious Disease
• Transplant Infectious Disease
• Vaccines
• Virus Infections

Education

Internship

• Boston Medical Center, 1998 - 1999

Medical School

• McGill University, 1994 - 1998

Residency

• Boston Medical Center, 1998 - 1991

Fellowship

• Brigham and Women's/Massachusetts General Joint Nephrology Fellowship, 2001 - 2004

Training

• 1998-2001, Resident, Internal Medicine, Boston University Medical School, Boston, MA
• 2001-2005, Fellow, Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
• 2001-2005, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School (HMS), New England Primate Research Center, Division of Immunology, Southborough, MA

Appointments

• 2005-2013, Instructor in Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Center for Virology and Vaccine Research), Brigham & Women’s Hospital (BWH), MGH, and HMS, Boston, MA
• 2013-present, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Center for Virology and Vaccine Research), BWH, MGH, and HMS, Boston, MA

Honors

• 1988, First Alternate, G-7 Economic Summit Essay Competition
• 1988, First Place, Newfoundland Arts and Letters Competition, Junior Prose
• 1989, First Place, Royal Canadian Legion Remembrance Day Competition, Newfoundland Branch, Essay Division
• 1990, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Electoral District Scholarship
• 1990-1991, Hector McInnes Memorial Scholarship, Dalhousie University
• 1990-1994, Canada Scholarship for studies in the physical and natural sciences
• 1990-1994, Dean’s List, Faculty of Science, Dalhousie University
• 1992, NSERC Summer Research Bursary for research in cellular immunology
• 1993-1994, HRH Princess of Wales Scholarship for the Biological Sciences
• 1994, First Class Honours, Dalhousie University
• 1995, Samuel Rosenfeld Prize, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
• 1995, Summer Language Bursary for French Immersion, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
• 1995-1996, Dean’s Honour List, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
• 1998, Alexander D. Stewart Prize, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
• 2005, Post-Doctoral Fellow Travel Grant, 12th CROI Boston, MA
• 2005, Post-Doctoral Fellow Travel Grant, 43rd Annual Meeting of IDSA, San Francisco, CA
• 2011, “Let’s Talk HIV Prevention – HIV Vaccine Awareness Day,” Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise Award