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Peterson, Phillip
 Phillip K. Peterson, M.D. is the Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine. He is a Professor of Medicine and is also Director of the International Medical Education and Research Program in the Medical School. Dr. Peterson received his M.D. in 1970 from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in NY, where he also completed his Internal Medicine training. After an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the University of Minnesota Hospital, he joined the faculty of the Department of Medicine in 1977. In 1984, he moved to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he served as Director of Infectious Diseases until 2004. In 2002, he assumed the role as overall Director of the Division and moved to the UMMC campus in 2005. His major research interests have been in the area of host defenses and pathogenesis of central nervous system infections. Together with his research colleagues in the Center for Infectious Disease and Microbiology Translational Research, he has been investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms of defense and damage of the brain caused by a variety of intracellular pathogens.
Selected Publications
Gekker G, Hu S, Wentland MP, Bidlack JM, Lokensgard JR, Peterson PK. k-Opioid receptor ligands inhibit cocaine-induced HIV-1 expression in microglial cells. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2004;309:600-606.
Rock RB, Gekker G, Hu S, Sheng WS, Cheeran M, Lokensgard JR, Peterson PK. Microglia: Evolving concepts of their role in defense and neuropathogenesis of central nervous system infections. Clin Microbiol Rev 2004;17:942-64.
Hu S, Sheng WS, Lokensgard JR, Peterson PK. Morphine potentiates HIV-1 gp 120-induced neuronal apoptosis. J Infect Dis. 2005;191:886-889.
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