Therapeutics and Vaccines for COVID-19

PRESENTATION June 24, 2020

Speaker / Author

Barry Zingman, M.D.

Clinical Director of Infectious Diseases at the Moses Division, Montefiore Health System

Dr. Barry Zingman is Clinical Director of Infectious Diseases at the Moses Division of Montefiore Medical Center; Medical Director of the Montefiore AIDS Center; Professor of Medicine at Einstein; and Principal Investigator at Montefiore/Einstein of the NIH Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT) of remdesivir and other therapies for people hospitalized with severe COVID-19 infection. Dr. Zingman’s interest in infectious diseases started when he was a medical student in the early 1980’s in New York City, caring for people newly diagnosed with an as-yet unnamed illness that was striking young men, drug users, and particularly people of color. This led him to ... Read More