Dr. Donald J. Krogstad is the Director of the Center for Infectious Diseases at Tulane University. His research interests include the molecular and genetic basis of resistance to chloroquine and quinine, techniques for the characterization of individual clones of malaria parasites, and the development of methods to study pathogenicity. He has participated in numerous government advisory committees including the Global Expertise Reserve for the National Intelligence Council for the Department of State, the Tropical Medicine and Parasitology Study Section at the National Institutes of Health, and the Drug Development and Antimicrobial Resistance Study Section at the National Institutes of Health. In addition to these responsibilities he participated as Secretary for the Medical Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science.