SPEAKER'S PROFILES
Heinz Feldmann
Dr. Feldmann graduated from Medical School and received his PhD in 1988 both from the University of Marburg, Germany. His postdoctoral research was conducted in the field of virology (filoviruses and hantaviruses) at the Philipps-University (Marburg, Germany) and the Special Pathogens Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, USA). During his time in Marburg he was trained as an infectious disease specialist with focus on laboratory diagnostics. From 1999-2008, Dr. Feldmann held the position of Chief, Special Pathogens Program of the National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) (Winnipeg, Canada). Since 2008, he is the Chief, Laboratory of Virology at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), DIR NIAID, NIH (Hamilton, Montana), and the Chief Scientist of the RML BSL4 Laboratories. Heinz Feldmann is the laboratory expert on high containment viruses (BSL4) and serves as a consultant on viral hemorrhagic fevers and related pathogens for the World Health Organization and, thus, has field experience and expertise in outbreak management. He is a member of national and international professional societies, an editor for Archives of Virology, and serves on the editorial board of several virology journals. Dr. Feldmann is an external scientific reviewer for national and international organizations and serves as a scientific consultant for high containment laboratories. His professional interest is in the pathogenesis of hemorrhagic fever viruses, such as filoviruses, arenaviruses and bunyaviruses, and other special viral pathogens (high containment, BSL3 and BSL4). Dr. Feldmann was awarded with several honors including the ‘Löffler-Frosch Award’ from the German Society for Virology (DGV), the ‘Dalrymple/Young Award’ by the American Committee on Arthropod-Borne Viruses (ACAV), and the PHAC Research Merit Award.
