Angela Caliendo, M.D., Ph.D.

Angela Caliendo, M.D., Ph.D.

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Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Angela M. Caliendo, M.D., Ph.D., is currently the Warren Alpert Foundation professor of medicine and executive vice chair of the Department of Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Caliendo received a Ph.D. and M.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and an Infectious Diseases fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston. After completing fellowship training, she joined the faculty at the MGH as an assistant director of microbiology with responsibilities for the clinical virology and molecular diagnostics sections of the laboratory. In 1999, she joined the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine, initially as the medical director of the microbiology and molecular diagnostics laboratories and later became the director of Emory Medical Laboratories, and professor and vice chair of pathology and laboratory medicine.
 
Caliendo is an editor for the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Infectious Diseases and Open Forum Infectious Diseases, secretary for the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and a fellow of IDSA and the American Academy of Microbiology. She is a past member of the IDSA Guidelines Committee on the Diagnosis of COVID-19 and the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria.
 
Caliendo’s research has focused on the development of molecular diagnostic tests for the detection and quantification of infectious diseases and assessment of their clinical utility, molecular testing in transplantation, standardization of viral load testing and evaluation of HIV-1 RNA burden and the development of antiretroviral resistance in HIV-1 seropositive women. She has published over 170 peer-reviewed manuscripts covering various topics in clinical and diagnostic virology and microbiology and was a recipient of the Ed Nowakowski Senior Memorial Clinical Virology Award from the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology and the BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology from the American Society for Microbiology.