Sherwood L. Gorbach, MD CFAR Executive Committee Member
Mailing Address:	Tufts University Nutrition/Infection Unit 150 Harrison Ave – Jaharis Building Boston, MA 02111
Telephone:	(617) 636-3811
Email:	sherwood.gorbach@Tufts.edu

Dr. Gorbach graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1962. After his internship and residency in internal medicine at Cornell-Bellevue Medical Center, he returned to the New England Medical Center for a fellowship in infectious disease. He received additional postgraduate training in parasitology and entomology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and in gastroenterology at the Hammersmith Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London. He has conducted studies of enteric infections and nutrition in India and Latin America. Since 1969, Dr. Gorbach has been continuously funded as a principal investigator by the National Institutes of Health for research in infectious diseases and nutrition. He was awarded a MERIT Award in 1986 for studies of diet and breast cancer. Currently he is principal investigator on five NIH research projects, including a program project grant on Nutrition and HIV and a Center for Drug Abuse and AIDS Research.

Dr. Gorbach has published over 500 papers and has authored eighteen books. He is editor of CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES, and serves on the editorial board of several journals in infectious diseases, microbiology, gastroenterology and nutrition. At the Medical School, he holds professorships in the Departments of Community Health, Medicine, and Molecular Biology and Microbiology. He is also a Professor in the School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.