John Galgiani, MD

Director, Valley Fever Center for Excellence

The University of Arizona

Dr. Galgiani received his medical degree from Northwestern Medical School, completed a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Stanford and has been on the faculty of the University of Arizona since 1978. He has focused his career on the special problem of coccidioidomycosis, also known as Valley fever, including studies of the impact of Valley fever on the general population and on special groups such as organ transplant recipients and patients with AIDS. He is the lead author on the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s practice guidelines for coccidioidomycosis. In 1996, Dr. Galgiani founded the Valley Fever Center for Excellence. In collaboration with Banner Health, Dr. Galgiani developed and is now implementing a training program for primary care clinicians for prompt recognition and optimal management of patients with new Valley fever infections. The Center’s research has recently developed a vaccine candidate to prevent Valley fever in dogs and potentially in humans.