Claire B. Panosian, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine

Claire Panosian graduated from Stanford University, Northwestern Medical School and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  She completed her residency in internal medicine at Northwestern and her fellowship in infectious diseases at Tufts-New England Medical Center. Her post-doctoral research at Tufts focused on host defense in leishmaniasis. A UCLA faculty member since 1984, she was Chief of Infectious Diseases at LA County-Olive View Medical Center from 1984-86.  She then joined the Division of Infectious Diseases at UCLA Medical Center to launch clinical and educational programs in tropical medicine.  Dr. Panosian currently directs the UCLA Travel and Tropical Medicine Clinic and teaches a variety of courses on international health in the medical school, the Graduate School of Education, and the College of Letters and Science (International Development Studies). She is also a senior consultant to the National Academies of Science/Institute of Medicine Board on Global Health and a Councilor of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dr. Panosian has worked overseas in many countries of the Pacific Rim as well as Haiti, Armenia, Albania and Tanzania. Starting in 1987, she launched a second career in medical journalism.  She writes regularly for the Los Angeles Times, Scientific American and Discover magazine.

Selected Recent Publications

Arrow KA, Panosian CB, Gelband H (eds) "Saving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance," The National Academies Press, Washington D.C. 2004 (in press).

 Panosian CB. Approach to the International Traveler, in DeCherney A and Pregler J (ed), Principles of Women’s Health, BC Decker, pp 758-765, 2002.

 Cannon CP, Nelson SD, Panosian CB, et al. Soft tissue echinococcosis. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 2001; 385: 186-191.

 Panosian C. Politics and Plagues. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice 2001; 10:141-142.

 Panosian Dunavan C.  Deploying science to desperate ends, Scientific American, June 2004.

 Panosian Dunavan C.  Men, Money and Malaria, Scientific American, June 2002.

 Panosian Dunavan C,  Can't beat that cough (whooping cough), Discover Magazine, November 2003.

 Panosian Dunavan C.  Just an upset stomach? (cholera), Discover Magazine, July 2003.

 Panosian Dunavan C.  A killer raves on (rabies), Discover Magazine, March 2003.