Dr. Salazar is professor in pediatrics at the University of Connecticut’s Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and director of the Pediatric and Youth HIV Program at Connecticut Children’s. Dr. Salazar joined the full time faculty at the University of Connecticut’s Department of Pediatrics in November of 1998. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, the HIV Medical Association and the Hartford and Connecticut State Medical Societies.

Dr. Salazar’s basic translational research interest includes the analysis of the immunologic interactions between syphilis and HIV and the pathogenesis of spirochetal diseases including Lyme disease. Dr. Salazar is NIH funded to (1) conduct a translational study of syphilis in Colombia and (2) to assess the role of the innate immune responses in humans to Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. He has been the principal investigator for a variety of pharmaceutical industry sponsored clinical trials, including childhood vaccines and antibiotics. He has authored and co-authored over 60 papers and book chapters.

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