Dr Stephen Greenberg
Dr. Stephen B. Greenberg has resided in
Houston for 35 years, coming from Baltimore to join Baylor College of
Medicine as a Fellow in Infectious Diseases. He accepted a faculty
position in the Department of Medicine in 1974, and has risen through
the ranks to become Senior Vice President and Dean of Medical Education
in 2006.
Dr. Greenberg has assumed many
leadership roles within Baylor College of Medicine: Chief of General
Medicine Section at Ben Taub General Hospital (1986 – 1989) and
Chief of Medicine Service (1990 - present), Associate Chair of the
Department of Medicine (1999 - 2002), Acting Chair of the Department of
Medicine (2002 - 2004), and Chair of the Department of Medicine (2004 -
2006). In addition, Dr. Greenberg has served as: Associate Dean for
Graduate Medical Education (2001 - 2004), Associate Chief of Staff at
Ben Taub General Hospital, and Consulting Attending Physician at the
Michael E. DeBakey VAMC and St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital. He was
Acting Chief of Medicine Service at The Methodist Hospital from 2002 -
2005.
Dr. Greenberg holds the Herman Brown
Teaching Professorship (1990 - present). In 2002, he was appointed
Distinguished Service Professor at Baylor College of Medicine. His many
awards and honors include: membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha honor
society; Master of the American College of Physicians; overseas member
of the Royal Society of Medicine; and Fellow of the Infectious Diseases
Society of America. Dr. Greenberg is also a member of the following
organizations: American Clinical and Climatological Association,
Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, American Osler Society,
American Thoracic Society, American Association of Immunologists,
American Society for Virology, and New York Academy of Sciences.
In 1972, he was named Outstanding
House Officer of the University of Maryland’s Medicine Residency
Program. He served as Councilor of the Southern Society for Clinical
Research from 1980 - 1983. He was the recipient of the Chief Resident’s
Award for Outstanding Attending in Internal Medicine at Baylor in
1987. He received the John P. McGovern Outstanding Clinical Teacher
Award at Baylor in 1995, and the Baylor Alumni Award in 1999. He has
been listed among the Best Doctors in America in 1997, 1998, 2002, and
2005.
Dr. Greenberg has published approximately 150 journal articles and book chapters. He served as North American Editor for the Journal of Infection from 2002 - 2008. He is currently editor of Practical Reviews in Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Greenberg’s research interests
have been in the area of infectious diseases, especially respiratory
viral infections. His early interests centered on the use of
interferon for the common cold. He has published on the role of
respiratory viruses in asthma and chronic bronchitis. He has
participated in several national trials of new antiviral drugs that are
now used for the treatment of chicken pox, the shingles, encephalitis,
influenza, and HIV/AIDS. He has also collaborated on trials for
influenza and HIV candidate vaccines.
Dr. Greenberg has contributed
significantly to the educational mission of Baylor College of
Medicine. He has instructed medical students in Physical Diagnosis,
Microbiology, The Core Clerkship in Internal Medicine, and the Medicine
and Infectious Diseases services at Ben Taub General Hospital. He
has taught medicine residents as an Attending Physician, in
conferences, and at the Ben Taub morning report. He developed a highly
successful CME course on the treatment of adult patients for practicing
physicians and health professionals. Currently, Dr. Greenberg has
responsibility for all undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical
education programs at Baylor College of Medicine as Dean of Medical
Education.
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