April 22, 2027
11 am – 12 pm
UW Medicine South Lake Union Orin Smith Auditorium & Streamed on Zoom Webinar
850 Republican St, Seattle, WA

Biography

Conrad Liles, MD, PhD, FRCP(C), FACP, FIDSA is currently Vice Chair for Research and Professor of Medicine and holds adjunct appointments in the Departments of Global Health, Pharmacology and Laboratory Medicine & Pathology at the University of Washington.

Following his undergraduate education at Williams College, he entered the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored MD-PhD program (Medical Scientist Training Program) at the University of Washington (USA) and graduated in 1987 with an MD and a PhD in pharmacology. Following residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1987-1990, he returned to the University of Washington where he served as Chief Medical Resident in 1991 and as a Fellow in Infectious Diseases from 1992-1995. In 1996, he was appointed to the faculty at the University of Washington as Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and rose to the rank of Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Pathology.

In March 2006, Dr. Liles moved to the University of Toronto to assume the position of Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, where he worked to develop translational research programs in sepsis, emerging infectious diseases and infectious diseases of public health importance, including malaria and sepsis. At the University of Toronto, he received the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Inflammation and Infectious Diseases and was a member of the McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine, the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, and the Toronto General Research Institute. He subsequently served as Vice Chair of Medicine and Acting Chair of Medicine.

In 2012, he returned to the University of Washington as Associate Chair of Medicine. He served as the Interim Director of the Center for Lung Biology (CLB) from 2013-2016. He is the co-founder and current Co-Director of the Molecular Medicine Training Program and Co-Director of the Molecular Medicine and Mechanisms of Disease (M3D) PhD Graduate Program, and is a member of the Center for Lung Biology (CLB) and the Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (CERID). He is the founding Director of the Sepsis Center of Research Excellence-University of Washington (SCORE-UW), established in 2020. As author of more than 320 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 50 book chapters, Dr. Liles maintains an active translational research program as a principal investigator in host defense, infectious diseases, inflammation, innate immunity, sepsis, malaria, immunodeficiency disorders, and immunomodulatory therapy.  Dr. Liles has served as mentor for >70 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows during the course of his career. In 2022, he was selected as the Department of Medicine William J. Bremner Endowed Mentorship Award for the training of physician-scientists.

Dr. Liles received the 2004 Outstanding Investigator Award from the Western Society for Clinical Investigation (WSCI) and was elected to Fellowship in the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). In 2014, he was elected to the Association of American Physicians (AAP). He served as President of the Western Association of Physicians (WAP) from 2014-2024.