Drexel University College of Medicine

Dr. Christopher Vinnard cares for patients with HIV and other infectious diseases at the Partnership Comprehensive Care Practice and Hahnemann University Hospital, in Center City Philadelphia. He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases, and holds a Certificate of Knowledge in clinical tropical medicine and travelers' health from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dr. Vinnard also holds masters degrees in public health and clinical epidemiology.

Awards and Honors

• Robert Austrian Award for Outstanding Fellow, Divison of Infectious Diseases, Unviersity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
• Special Citation for Fellows-in-Training, 48th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America

Memberships

• American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• Infectious Disease Society of America

In the News

Drexel University College of Medicine Receives Grand Challenges Explorations Grant For Groundbreaking Research in Global Health and Development
(May 10, 2012)

Dr. Vinnard studies host and pathogen factors that influence the clinical outcomes of tuberculosis, with a focus on HIV-associated tuberculosis.

Published Full-Length Papers

Isoniazid resistant tuberculous meningitis, United States, 1993-2005
C. Vinnard, C. Winston, E. Wileyto, R. Macgregor and G. Bisson
Emerging Infectious Diseases, [epub ahead of print] (March 2011)

Isoniazid resistance and death in patients with tuberculous meningitis: retrospective cohort study
C. Vinnard, C. Winston, E. Wileyto, R. Macgregor and G. Bisson
British Medical Journal, 341: c4451. PMID: 20819874 (2010)

Detection of human herpesvirus (HHV)-6 and HHV-7 in transplant recipients: minding the gap
C. Vinnard and E. Blumberg
Transplant Infectious Disease, 11(6): 477-9. PMID: 19891754 (2009)

Tuberculous meningitis in the HIV-infected individual
C. Vinnard and R. Macgregor
Current HIV/AIDS Reports, 6(3): 139-45. PMID: 19589299 (2009)

A report of HHV-6 associated encephalitis in a solid organ transplant recipient and a review of previously published cases
C. Vinnard, T. Barton, E. Jerud and E. Blumberg
Liver Transplantation, 15(10): 1242-6. PMID: 19790143 (2009)

Propionibacterium acnes brain abscess appearing ten years after neurosurgery
S.M. Kranick, C. Vinnard and D.L. Kolson
Archives of Neurology, 66(6): 793-5. PMID: 19506144 (2009)

Prevention of opportunistic infections in the solid organ transplant recipient
C. Vinnard and E. Blumberg
Infections in Medicine, 25(9): 403-415 (2008)

Book Chapters

Endocrine and Metabolic Aspects of Tuberculosis
C. Vinnard and E. Blumberg
In: Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections, Sixth Edition. Schlossberg D. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY. In press.

Letters to the Editor

Perioperative safety and bariatric surgery
M. Vetter, C. Vinnard and T. Wadden
New England Journal of Medicine, 361(19): 1910. PMID: 19890138 (2009)

Racial differences in rates of severe sepsis
C. Vinnard
Journal of the American Medical Association, 304(14):1556. PMID: 20940380

Dr. Vinnard is an assistant professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine.

Prior to joining the College's faculty, he taught a doctoring course for medical students during his residency at New York University and the infectious disease elective for medical students at the University of Pennsylvania.

• Infectious Diseases
• HIV

• HIV
• Infectious diseases
• Infectious diseases and travelers
• Travel medicine

• Medicine - New York University (2002-2003)

• Medicine - New York University (2003-2005)

• Infectious Diseases - Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (2007-2011)

Invited Presentations

Drug Resistant Tuberculous Meningitis: How clinical pharmacology can provide the framework for an epidemiologic investigation
Society for Clinical and Biomedical Research, Philadelphia, PA (November 2010)

Tuberculous Meningitis in the United States 1993-2005: Risk factors for initial isoniazid resistance, and the association of initial isoniazid resistance with mortality
Centers for Disease Control, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Surveillance and Epidemiology Branch, Atlanta, GA (October 2009)

Peer-Reviewed Presentations

Risk factors for nontuberculous mycobacterial infections in heart and lung transplant recipients
S. Longworth, C. Vinnard, I. Lee and E. Blumberg
Poster presentation, 48th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America (October 2010)

Tuberculous meningitis in the United States 1993-2005: The association of initial isoniazid resistance with mortality
C. Vinnard, C. Winston, E. Wileyto, R. Macgregor and G. Bisson
Oral presentation, 48th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America (October 2010)

Factors associated with isoniazid resistant tuberculous meningitis in the United States, 1993-2005
C. Vinnard, C. Winston, E. Wileyto, R. Macgregor and G. Bisson
Late-breaking poster presentation, 50th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (September 2010)

Risk Factors for Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections in Heart and Lung Transplant Recipients
C. Vinnard, S. Longworth, I. Lee and E. Blumberg
Poster presentation, 26th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology (August 2010)