Dr. David T Durack is Senior Vice President, Corporate Medical Affairs and Director of Pre-Clinical and Clinical Development for Becton Dickinson (BD), and Consulting Professor of Medicine at Duke University. He graduated from University of West Australia Medical School '69, and undertook postgraduate studies at Oxford University '70 -'73 as a Rhodes Scholar, leading to Doctor of Philosophy '73. His doctoral thesis was titled "Experimental Endocarditis". He held internship and residency posts at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford with further training at the Royal Post-graduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London. His research has centered on host-parasite interactions and chemotherapy of bacterial and fungal infections. For 17 years he was chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health at Duke University. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (UK), the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, and the American College of Physicians; he has published more than 200 articles and textbook chapters and co-edited several textbooks. Dr. Durack has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Council of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the American Academy of Microbiology. He has served on an FDA Review Panel, as Chairman of the Board of Directors, ASM Resources Inc., and as a Director of Joint Commission Resources.