Art Ammann
Dr. Arthur Ammann is president of Global Strategies for HIV Prevention and clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. Global Strategies for HIV Prevention is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1998. It is dedicated to HIV prevention and responds to the needs of HIV infected women and children worldwide.
From 1971-85, Ammann was director of Pediatric Immunology and Clinical Research Center at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco. During that time he established the pediatric bone marrow transplant program and developed innovative therapy for immunodeficiency diseases. He discovered several new immunodeficiency disorders including a previously undescribed enzyme deficiency. In 1982 he described the first cases of transmission of AIDS from mother to infant and the first blood transfusion AIDS patients.
Ammann has authored or co-authored chapters in pediatrics, immunology and AIDS textbooks, as well as more than 300 scientific papers which have appeared in publications including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Immunology and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Ammann has taught in Africa, India, South America, Mexico, the Caribbean and China.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Wheaton College and a Doctor of Medicine degree from New Jersey College of Medicine. Ammann received residency training from the department of pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco and obtained fellowship training in immunology from both the University of Minnesota Medical Center and the University of Wisconsin Medical Center.