Alan Magill, MD is the director of the Division of Experimental Therapeutics, at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and research coordinator for the Leishmania Research Program and the anti-Malaria Drug Research and Development Program for the Military Infectious Disease Research Program. He is the author of 55 peer-reviewed publications, over 85 abstracts, and 9 book chapters. He is an author of Hunter’s Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Disease, 9th Edition.

Dr. Magill has had extensive international research experience in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. He has particular clinical and research interest in the areas of ethics and practicalities of clinical research in the developing world, translational clinical research for anti-malarial drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics and product development efforts for new diagnostic and therapeutic solutions for cutaneous leishmaniasis.