Stuart Ray's page

I am Stuart Ray, M.D., Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program and 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 am fully supportive of and engaged in the efforts of the Diversity Council.

I have a secondary appointment in Viral Oncology and a joint appointment in 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 - continually updated, from the same team as SciVal (below)
• Community of Science - not as well-maintained as others, not available everywhere, some nice features like biosketches
• Google Scholar Citations - relatively new, easy to set up
• LinkedIn - not truly free, not customized to science, but better-suited for active networking
• MyNCBI Bibiolography at NLM - not perfect, but I like Pubmed's tools
• ResearcherID - includes continually-updated citation metrics, but publications are added manually
• SciVal - institutionally-supported, continually updated, with interesting interactive tools - explore it!; formerly Collexis

I remain amazed that the NLM does not uniquely identify authors in Pubmed, since Pubmed is otherwise the de facto standard for scientific publications. Unique identification would have huge benefits, including support for people who change names. I have ideas for a fairly straightforward collaborative implementation. In winter 2010 NCBI said that they were planning to do something about this using MyNCBI starting mid-2011, in a project called AuthorID; now it seems to be a little behind schedule...

My general interests are indirectly reflected in my Links page.

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