POSITIONS

Dr. Dean is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine and faculty in the Department of Bioengineering, University of California at Berkeley.  She is an active member of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Trachoma, World Health Organization, since 1999.  She is also a standing member of the IRAP study section at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  She is currently the recipient of the International Professorship Award for Latin America from the American Society of Microbiology.  Dr. Dean has collaborations with biotechnology companies in the bay area to advance vaccine development for chlamydiae and apply nanotechnology to advance our understanding of chlamydial disease pathogenesis. She is a Senior Scientist at CHORI.

Awards

• Junior year Phi Beta Kappa (1976)
• Public Health Investigator Award, Albert Einstein College of Medicine,Dept of Community Medicine, The Bronx, New York (1979-1979)
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (1981)
• International Health Fellow:  Clinical Tropical Medicine, Bangalore, India, and Blackriver, Jamaica (1981-1982)
• Citation for Scholastic Achievement, American Medical Women's Association (1982)
• Regents Scholar for promise in Pubic Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.(1985-1986)
• McCormick Fund Award for Research Excellence, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA (1988)
• Giannini Foundation Fellowship Award, San Francisco, CA. (1989-1990)
• Physician Scientist Award, PI, K11, National Institutes of Health(1990-1995)
• Faculty Development Award, UCSF (1995-1996)
• Apple Cluster Workgroup for Bioinformatics Award (2004)
• NIH special emphasis panel on vaccine and microbicide development to prevent sexually transmitted infectious diseases (2004)
• Standing Member, IRAP study section, NIH (2005-present)
• Co-Chair, Section on Stress and Persistence, Chlamydia Basic Research Society (2005)
• Patent Awarded with Dr. Randy Mrsny: Chlamydial constructs for vaccine development (2005)
• American Society of Microbiology, International Professorship Award for Latin America (2006)

EDUCATION

STANFORD UNIVERISTY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
PALO ALTO, CA
Postdoctoral Fellow, Microbial Pathogenesis; 86-91

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY     
BERKELEY, CA
Masters of Public Health, Epidemiology; M.P.H.; 5/86

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Straight Internal Medicine, Internship & Residency; 82-85

ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE         
BRONX, NEW YORK
Doctor of Medicine; M.D., Alpha Omega Alpha; 6/82

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY        
BERKELEY, CA
Independent Major: Philosophy, Literature, and
Environmental Studies 
B.A, Summa Cum Laude; 12/77