New members of the Faculty of Medicine, appointed between February 1, 2007 and March 31, 2007,  were introduced at a reception on April 2, 2007.  These receptions are held as an opportunity for new faculty members to meet the UTMB community.  Click here for a listing of the new faculty.

Family Medicine

Pictured: New faculty member, Dr. Cynthia Ripsin, assistant professor; and Dr. Barbara Thompson, chair.
 

Dr. Ripsin enjoys seeing the entire age spectrum for well and acute care, and has a special interest in the management of chronic disease. Her special research interest is in the primary care management of Type 2 diabetes as well as the management of chronic disease.

Internal Medicine

Pictured: New faculty member, Dr. A. Clinton White, professor; and Dr. Jerry C. Daniels, associate chairman of medicine.

Dr. White's clinical interest include opportunistic infections, HIV associated infections, international health and tropical medicine. His research has focused on the interface between the human host response and a number of infectious diseases. He has studied the host response, epidemiology, and clinical manifestations of Taenia solium, which is the cause of neurocysticercosis, one of the more common neurologic diseases in developing countries. White is currently collaborating on studies of the mechanisms of seizures in neurocysticercosis and serves on the data safety monitoring board for a trial being performed in Peru. He also works on the intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium. White's studies have examined how the human intestinal immune response controls the parasite and how the parasite stimulates host responses to evade control. He directs a training grant for physicians at the Cayetano University in Peru. Current projects pursued in collaboration with current and former trainees include studies of the host cytokine responses to Strongyloides in normal hosts compared to those with retroviral infections and studies of cytokines and regulatory T cells in immune reconstitution syndrome seen in HIV-TB co-infected subjects.

White is married to Molly and they have three children: Jonathon 22, Hannah 19 and Sam 15