Department of Medicine

Dr. Ryder

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Robert W. Ryder, M.D., M.Sc.
Health Sciences Professor of Medicine

Telephone (619) 471-9186

Mail Code 8485

Academic Profile

Dr. Robert (Robin) Ryder is a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York and a post medical graduate of the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He completed his infectious diseases training in the joint Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel/Boston Children’s Hospital Program in Boston, Massachusetts.

He has worked in the area of international infectious diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, since 1986.

Dr. Ryder has spent two long stints at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, first as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in enteric diseases and then as the director of CDC’s HIV research program in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Zaire.

Before his arrival here at UCSD, he directed the infectious disease program in the Department of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Arriving at UCSD in October 2007 as the first Master Teacher in the Department of Medicine, Dr. Ryder has focused on research excellence in faculty in the Division of Hospital Medicine and in medical house staff in the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at UCSD Medical Center.

Highlighted Publications

• Rimoin AW, Kisalu N, Kebela-Ilunga B, Mukaba T, Wright LL, Formenty P, ... Ryder RW, Meyer H. Endemic human monkeypox, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2001–2004. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet] 2007 June; 13(6) Available from http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/13/6/934.htm
• Yakubovsky A, Sokolovsky E, Miller WC, Sparling PF, Ryder RW, Hoffman IF. Syphilis Management in St. Petersburg, Russia: 1995-2001. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2006 April; 33(4):244-249. Abstract with link to full text
• Kozlov AP, Shaboltas AV, Toussova OV, Verevochkin SV, Masse BR, Perdue T, Beauchamp G, Sheldon W, Miller WC, Heimer R, Ryder RW, Hoffman IF. HIV incidence and factors associated with HIV acquisition among injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia. AIDS 2006 April 4; 20(6):901-906. Abstract with link to full text
• Pence BW, Gaynes BN, Whetten K, Eron JJ, Ryder RW, Miller WC. Validation of a brief screening instrument for substance abuse and mental illness in HIV-positive patients. AIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 2005 December 1; 40(4):434-444. Abstract with link to full text
• Heffernan RT, Pambo B, Hatchett RJ, Leman PA, Swanepoel R, Ryder RW. Low seroprevalence of IgG antibodies to Ebola virus in an epidemic zone: Ogooué-Ivindo Region, Northeastern Gabon, 1997. J Infect Dis 2005; 191:964–968. Abstract with link to full text