Stephanie Taylor Appointed to NIH Advisory Council
Leslie Capo, Director of Information Services
Anthony Fauci, MD, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
welcomed Stephanie Taylor, MD, professor of medicine and microbiology in the Section
of Infectious Diseases at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, as one of two
new members of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Council.
She is the only NIAID Council member from Louisiana. The Council is the chief advisory
committee of the NIAID. It comprises 18 voting members serving on three subcommittees
corresponding to NIAID extramural divisions. Dr. Taylor is one of five members of
the Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID) Subcommittee. Members usually serve
for four years but can serve 180 days longer if their successor has not been appointed.
According to NIAID, among its duties, the NIAID Council advises NIAID on policy, clears concepts, and reviews programs. NIAID often seeks the Council's advice before changing policies for training, health information dissemination, administration, budget, and other areas. The NIAID Council also advises on long-term planning of potential future NIAID initiatives. Council members and ad hoc advisors counsel the Institute on broad research priorities and directions, providing the perspective of the outside community.
Dr. Taylor is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and her clinical practice and research focus on sexually transmitted infections, STI-related diagnostic trials and STI clinical drug trials. She has 80 journal publications, including one as lead author in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Taylor is medical director of the LSU Infectious Diseases STD program and laboratory, the LSU-CrescentCare Sexual Health Center, and the Louisiana Office of Public Health STD/HIV Program. She is also a recipient of a Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the American STD Association and is an associate editor of Clinical Infectious Diseases, the flagship journal of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
“Dr. Taylor is one of our most talented physician-scientists,” says Dr. Steve Nelson, LSU Health New Orleans Interim Chancellor and School of Medicine Dean. “This appointment reflects the excellence of LSU Health New Orleans faculty and the enormous contributions they make to Louisiana and the nation.”