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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Prof Dean Winslow is an American physician, academic, and retired United States Air Force colonel. He is Professor and former Vice Chair of Medicine at Stanford University. He previously served as Chair of the Department of Medicine and Chief of the Division of AIDS Medicine at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. In the Air Force, he deployed twice to Afghanistan and four times to Iraq as a flight surgeon supporting combat operations in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.1
Since 2006, Winslow has arranged medical care in the U.S. for 28 Iraqi children who have complicated medical conditions for which care is not available in Iraq. On 1 July 2021, Winslow was asked to lead the CDC’s COVID-19 Testing and Diagnostics Working Group (TDWG), a $46 billion interagency effort to develop testing-related guidance, expand the available testing supply, and maximize testing capacity in the US.
Hosted by Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton, in support of medecins sans frontieres
