Professional Bio
Timothy L. Cover, MD, is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology.
Dr. Cover maintains an active laboratory research program and provides patient care at the Nashville VA Medical Center. His research interests are directed toward studies of bacteria-host interactions and mechanisms by which bacteria cause disease, focusing on the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in the pathogenesis of stomach cancer. Topics of current interest in the Cover lab include a secreted H. pylori pore-forming toxin (VacA), a secreted effector protein (CagA, classified as a bacterial oncoprotein), and a type IV secretion system that mediates entry of CagA into host cells.
Dr. Cover has authored more than 200 publications, and his laboratory been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health and Department of Veterans Affairs for more than 25 years. He has received several honors, including a Vanderbilt University award for outstanding teaching of graduate students in Microbiology and Immunology, membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation and Association of American Physicians, and fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology and American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Education
MD - Duke University, 1984
Residency - Internal Medicine - Penn State University, 1987
Fellowship - Infectious Diseases - University of Colorado Boulder, 1989
Fellowship - Infectious Diseases - Vanderbilt University, 1990
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307