Prof. Dr. Aileen M. Marty M.D., FCAP
Prof. Aileen Marty is a physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine with over 40 years of clinical work, and more than 43-years of teaching and research experience, including large, multicenter clinical research studies.
She served 25 years in the US Navy, where she learned to organize and conduct health plans and coordinated health care for massive campaigns and field MedReady activities. Her research and field of expertise is a combination of infectious disease, public health, mass gatherings, disaster response, and medical countermeasures for weapons of mass destruction.
Her work ranges from sophisticated molecular and biological studies of specific human pathogens (such as “expression of Helicobacter pylori virulence genes in gastric precancerous intestinal metaplasia and adenocarcinoma)” to clinical studies and treatment and prevention of various disease (such as “Ebola and other Filoviridae, Hosts, Disease, Pathogenesis, and development of vaccines and specific treatment”). It also spans to studies on public health responses to catastrophes (such as her Law review article “A Deadly Warning Mandating Improvement to the National Response to Disasters.”)
Her work is uncommon in its scope and its depth. She has been restless in the pursuit and creation of innovative means and methods for practicing and coordinating the practice of medicine, providing a faster response, and identifying new diagnostic techniques and new preventive methods and new treatments - always with a keen awareness of preventive health and cost containment.
The common theme in her scholarly publications is the pursuit of practical solutions for challenging medical problems while understanding the legal, social, and economic aspects of the disease. Her publications include over 100 peer-reviewed articles and range from peer-reviewed medical to peer-reviewed legal articles, interim guidance on managing critical health issues, and the editing of several books. These include discoveries of new pathogens and how to diagnose them, the development of vaccines and drugs, and innovative teaching methods.
There is intense work on viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, and other pathogens of humans and animals. Numerous publications involve medical countermeasures for chemical and biological warfare agents, and the management of Mass Gatherings. This work includes authoring the Chapter on Command, Control, and Communication for Mass Gatherings in the WHO publication, “Public Health for Fmass Gatherings: Key Considerations. ISBN 978 92 4 156493 9,” as well as the WHO Interim Guidance on the Initial Clinical Management of Patients exposed to Chemical Weapons.
She has served the United Nations both as a member of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission and for the World Health Organization in Mass Gathering events and the Health Security Interface. She also worked with and for elements of US Federal government including DoD, DHS, DHHS (CDC, NIH), DOS, and USDA developing plans, programs, training, and policy for government agencies, the White House National Security administration, and other government agencies and continue to serve on the President’s Advisory Council Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.
