Dr. Michele Springis a pediatric infectious disease physician who has been engaged in malaria research since 2003. She has extensive experience in clinical trials, including safety and efficacy studies of malaria vaccines and drugs, conducted both in the US and at overseas sites in malaria endemic areas. Her current interests are in relapsing malaria and the host and parasite factors that may influence treatment efficacy. She also works in the Center for International Health, an outpatient clinic dedicated to new refugee and immigrant arrivals in the Syracuse area.

Her medical training began with a Bachelor of Science at the University of Notre Dame followed by a Master of Science in Public Health in parasitology from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. After two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa, she completed medical school at Vanderbilt University, pediatrics residency at University of California at San Francisco, then a pediatric infectious disease fellowship at Vanderbilt University with a malaria immunology research project in western Kenya with Case Western Reserve University.

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