Robert T. Schooley

Robert T. Schooley, M.D., serves as Professor of Medicine and Senior Director of International Initiatives at the University of California San Diego. His research efforts are directed at the pathogenesis and therapy of RNA virus infections. He has been Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado and led the NIH’s AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) from 1995 until 2002. At the University of California San Diego, he has served as Head of UCSD’s Infectious Diseases Division and now serves as Senior Director of International Initiatives for the University of California San Diego and has become deeply engaged in the University’s response to the SARS CoV-2 outbreak. He completed medical school and an internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins and infectious disease fellowships at the NIH and Massachusetts General Hospital.