Stuart Ray's page

I am Stuart Ray, M.D., Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Center for Viral Hepatitis Research in the Division of Infectious Diseases, in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. I have secondary appointments in Viral Oncology and the Division of Health Sciences Informatics. I am an avid supporter of the Osler housestaff training program and the Graduate Program in Immunology. In 1995-1996 I was the Assistant Chief of Service of the Janeway Firm of the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 2009 I was elected to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

My research interests revolve around the relationships between the sequence variation of RNA viruses (especially HCV and HIV-1) and their pathogenesis. My clinical interests also center around HCV and HIV infections.

My interests are also reflected, in various ways, in the following profile tools (not sure which I like best yet):

• BioMedExperts (automatically generated, geo tools 'neat' but not yet useful)
• Collexis (institutionally-supported and automatically generated, so not as likely to become stale)
• Community of Science (not as well-maintained as others, not available everywhere)
• LinkedIn (not truly free, not customized to science, but better-suited to networking)
• MyNCBI Bibiolography at NLM (just a bibliography, but I like Pubmed's tools)
• ResearcherID (includes continuously-updated citation metrics, but I must add publications)

I remain amazed that the NLM does not uniquely identify authors. This would have huge benefits, would be fairly straightforward to implement in a collaborative way, and simply must be done by a non-commercial entity.

My general interests are indirectly reflected in my Links page.

I also write software for biomedical research, and have a Software page.