Dr. Catanzaro's involvement in the area of Tuberculosis (TB) spans his entire professional career. He began this work in 1966 with the TB branch of the US Public Health Service, receiving intensive training in the prevention, management, and control of TB. Since then, his efforts in the field have incorporated clinical, teaching, research, community, and leadership activities on a local and global scale.

Dr. Catanzaro has served as Director of the TB Control Program at the UCSD Medical Center since 1972. As Director of the MultiDisciplinary TB Clinic, he provides care and management of active TB and HIV to patients from Southern California. He is also involved in the Tuberculosis Trials Consortium, whose goals are to improve diagnosis and treatment of latent and active TB. He is the Principal Investigator of the San Diego site, one of 26 participating sites in the US and Canada working in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Catanzaro's community involvement extends beyond TB related issues. In response to the influx of Southeast Asian refugees in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dr. Catanzaro founded the Center for Indochinese Health Education. He has also worked with an extensive network of colleagues in the San Diego/Tijuana border area to provide culturally appropriate care to the Hispanic and immigrant communities.

As Director of the NTCC, Dr. Catanzaro is directly involved in programmatic, financial, and administrative issues. He provides leadership at all levels within the NTCC and is instrumental in guiding the development of the curriculum.

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Helene M. Hoffman, Ph.D
Educational Technology Unit Director
hhoffman@ucsd.edu

Dr. Hoffman is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine and Assistant Dean for Educational Computing at the UCSD School of Medicine (SOM). Dr. Hoffman received her Ph.D. in Cardiovascular Physiology and Pharmacology from UCSD's SOM. Following her post-doctoral training in Pharmacology (UCSD) and Physiology and Biophysics (University of Vermont), Dr. Hoffman served as Assistant Director of UCSD's SOM Tutorial Program where she cultivated her interest in developing tools for teaching and learning.

For the past fifteen years, Dr. Hoffman has led the instructional technology activities at UCSD in her capacity as the director of the SOM Office of Educational Computing (EdCom). Under the direction of Dr. Hoffman, EdCom provides technology based resources such as course websites and interactive web-based applications (electronic mail, discussion forums, calendars, quiz makers, etc.) for all aspects of the UCSD SOM curriculum. Dr. Hoffman and EdCom received international recognition for MedPics, an interactive tutorial and image library developed in 1990 in conjunction with UCSD SOM faculty members for use in the UCSD Histology and Pathology curriculum. MedPics is in use by many medical and health sciences schools around the world and will make its web-based debut in 2005.

Dr. Hoffman is also actively involved in a wide variety of national and international educational initiatives and consortia. She is on the steering committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges' (AAMC) Group on Information Resources, the organizing committee of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) annual conference, and the editorial board of the MMVR conference proceedings (IOS Press).

Dr. Hoffman leads the Educational Technology Unit of the NTCC. Her group maintains the TB website to: (a) facilitate communication and interaction among Consortium members and committees; (b) place and organize the materials created by the Consortium; (c) administer online surveys to instructors and students and capture the responses into databases; (d) provide distance-learning opportunities; and (e) monitor the range of access to the TB website and the extent to which the Consortium materials are integrated into different programs by users outside of the Consortium.

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Shawn Harrity, MD
Curriculum Development Unit Director
sharrity@ucsd.edu

Dr. Harrity's primary career focus has been medical education. As a Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSD, she serves as Director of the fourth year medical student sub-internship in inpatient ward medicine, and chairs the Clinical Practice Examination (CPX) Committee. The CPX is a multi-station clinical assessment examination, which is developed by the California Consortium for the Assessment of Clinical Competence (CCACC) and given to all students at seven of the eight medical schools in California. At the graduate level, Dr. Harrity has served as the Program Director for the UCSD Internal Medicine Residency Program for the past eleven years after serving as its Associate Program Director for three years. Dr. Harrity has also taken on leadership roles at the national level, including her service in 2000 as a member of the National Standard Setting Panel for the Clinical Skills Assessment Examination for the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. Dr. Harrity is anticipated to finish a Master's of Science in Education program through the Rozier School of Education at the University of Southern California in 2004.

Dr. Harrity's focus in her clinical work over the past seventeen years has been the care of patients with HIV and AIDS. Her involvement with tuberculosis has been primarily through the care of those patients. She has been an attending staff physician in the UCSD Owen Clinic, a multidisciplinary HIV clinic since 1986, and was the co-founder of the UCSD Mother and Child HIV program in 1989. Over 50% of the women cared for in the Mother and Child HIV program are Hispanic, the majority of whom are immigrants from Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala. An additional 10% of patients are African immigrants.

Dr. Harrity's work for the NTCC consists primarily of creating evaluation instruments and ensuring the quality of educational and training materials. She is in charge of compiling and collating existing curricular and educational resources on TB. Dr. Harrity serves as Chair of the NTCC's Ad hoc Committee for editing the set of TB Competencies defined by the collaborative work of the Consortium committees.

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Marguerite McMillan Jackson, Ph.D., RN
Administrative Unit Director
majackson@ucsd.edu

Dr. Jackson has been involved in the area of tuberculosis for over twenty-five years, twenty-four of which she spent at UCSD. She retired from her position as administrator for the UCSD Infection Control Program at the UCSD Medical Center in 2003. She has served in a variety of leadership positions on local, state, and national levels, including her tenure as Chair of the San Diego Chapter of the American Lung Association's Tuberculosis Elimination Task Force. Dr. Jackson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and is Certified in Infection Control.

Dr. Jackson has worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for more than twenty years. Currently, she is working with the CDC on revising the Guidelines for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings 2004.

Dr. Jackson has been a member of the UCSD School of Medicine Institutional Review Board (IRB) since 1983 and is responsible for developing the NTCC's IRB applications. As the Administrative Unit Director, she coordinates activities of the Consortium, including preparing agendas and organizing and managing meetings and conference calls. Dr. Jackson is also responsible for Continuing Medical Education, Continuing Education Units, and other forms of accreditation for training programs developed by the Consortium.

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