Staff Clinician, HIV Immunovirology Section
Specialty(s): Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine Provides direct clinical care to patients at NIH Clinical Center
Education:
D.Phil., University of Oxford
M.B.,B.S. Aga Khan University Medical College
Biography
Dr. Rai earned a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.,B.S.) from Aga Khan University Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan where he was a part of Dr. Syed Ali’s team, which helped to identify and shed light on the HIV situation in Pakistan, publishing in Retrovirology, BMC Infectious Diseases, amongst others. After completing medical school, he joined Prof. Andrew McMichael and Prof. Sarah Rowland-Jones at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar to study immune corelates of protection in a cohort of long-term non-progressors analyzing HLA, T-cell, ADCC and ADCVI responses. After completing his D.Phil. in Clinical Medicine, he became a part of the Physician Scientist Training Program at the University of Cincinnati where he completed his residency in Internal Medicine, followed by a fellowship in Infectious Diseases. He worked as a part of Prof. Paul Spearman’s lab at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital where he analyzed HIV infection in the human brain setting, investigating human microglial models. He was faculty at the University of Cincinnati prior to moving over to NIAID. Dr. Rai is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.