Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Center for Contemporary South Asia
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Rami Kantor

Associate Professor of Medicine
YRG Care Intern Supervisor

rami_kantor@brown.edu
+1 401 793 4997

Rami Kantor is an internal medicine and infectious diseases physician, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases. He was recruited to Brown University in January 2005, after conducting post-doctoral HIV research fellowship at Stanford University. He completed his medical studies and internal medicine residency in Israel and his clinical infectious diseases training at Brown University/Lifespan. His laboratory's main research interests are HIV treatment monitoring, diversity, molecular epidemiology and the evolution of resistance to antiretroviral drugs. The research incorporates bioinformatics, sequence and phylogenetic analyses, and clinical as well as basic laboratory research. Dr. Kantor is the author of more than 90 publications in the medical literature, as well as several book chapters. He is involved in national and international collaborations, with focus on HIV/AIDS locally and in resource-limited settings.