G. Ralph Corey, MD
Vice-Chair for Education and Global Health in the Department of Medicine
Departments / Divisions- Medicine / Medicine-Infectious Diseases
- Pathology
- DGHI-Parent / DGHI-Admin
Address
DUMC 3850
Durham, NC 27710
Appointment Telephone
919-668-7174
Fax Telephone
919-668-7059
- MD, Baylor College of Medicine (Texas), 1973
- Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, 1974-1977
- Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, 1978-1980
- Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Traveler's Health, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2000
- Tropical and Traveler's Medicine, 2000
Clinical Interests
Staph bacteremia, endocarditis, pericarditis, travel and tropical medicine, general infectious diseases
Research Interests
My research is based at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, a large academic clinical research organization designed to conduct clinical trials from small local studies to worldwide trials. The focus of my research is bacterial infections: complicated skin and skin structure infections; postoperative wound infections; hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia; bacteremia; and endocarditis. Many of these trials are conducted in concert with the pharmaceutical industry in order to register new antibiotics. In addition, as director of infectious diseases at the DCRI I oversee the work of the mycology group, and tuberculosis trials. This work also includes work supported by NIH grants including sepsis trials, the Staph Aureus and Staph Epi Bacteremia Groups, and the International Collaboration of Endocarditis. The team of investigators with whom I work is highly experienced, amazingly productive and wonderfully collegial.
As a result of my longstanding interest in tropical medicine and the generosity of my patients as well as the Hubert Family we have been able to establish the Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health. As a result we have developed a medical center-wide fellowship in Global Health. I am presently the Director of the Center and the Gary Hock Distinguished Professor of Global Health.
This physician (or a member of their immediate family) has a working relationship (i.e. consulting, research, and/or educational services) with the companies listed below. These relations have been reported to the health system leadership and, when appropriate, management plans are in place to address potential conflicts.
- AstraZeneca
- Cowen and Company
- Dr Reddy's Laboratories
- Gerson Lehrman Group
- Guidepoint Clinical
- PRA International
- Pfizer Inc.
- Polymedix
- Trius Inc
- UpToDate
Representative Publications
Fowler VG Jr., Sexton DJ, Kong LK, Marr KA, Gottlieb G, McClelland RS, Corey GR. Outcome of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia According to Compliance with Infectious Diseases Consultant Recommendations: Experience with 293 patients. Accepted, Clin Inf Dis, 1998.
(1998)
Dietze R, Barros GB, Teixeira L, Harris J, Michelson K, Falqueto A, Corey R. Transmission of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Brazil: The Effect of Killing Seropositive Canines. 25:1240-42 , Clin Infect Dis, Nov. 1997.
(1997)
Dietze R, Perkins M, Boulos M, Luz FCO, Reller B, Corey GR. The Diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum Infection Using a New Antigen Detection System. Am J Trop Med Hgy 52 45-49, 1995.
(1995)
Corey RC, Campbell PT, Van Trigt P, Kenney RT, O'Connor C, Sheikh KH, Kisslo JA, Wall TC. Etiology of Large Pericardial Effusions. Am J Med. 95:209-213, 1993.
(1993)
Sexton DJ, Corey, GR. Rocky Mountain Spotless and Almost Spotless Fever: A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing. Clin Inf Dis. 15:439-448, 1992.
(1992)
