Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina,
Disclosure(s): EMD Serono: Advisor/Consultant
John Ernest McKinnon, M.D., M.Sc., FIDSA is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director for Investigator Initiated Translational Research at the Medical University of South Carolina and a Clinical Associate Professor for the Global Affairs department at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. He has previously served in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases at Henry Hospital in Detroit, Michigan and at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. He received his M.D. degree at the University of Panama Medical School, Rep. of Panama, and trained in Internal Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI. Dr. McKinnon was appointed to the T-32 Infectious Disease Training Grant for physician fellows, was selected for a Bristol-Myers-Squibb Virology HIV Research Fellow award and completed a Master of Science through the Clinical Research Training Program at the University of Pittsburgh during his fellowship. Dr. McKinnon was selected as one of the first scholars selected for the Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Scholar Program, a KL-2 Mentorship Grant, part of the NIH Roadmap initiative. He was recipient of several grants and awards including R21, Gates Foundation and others to further his work evaluating HIV-1 treatment strategies, COVID-19, opportunistic infections, translational laboratory research and other projects. His research has included active participation in the design and conduction of clinical trials through the ACTG, INSIGHT, NIH, investigator-initiated proposals for foundations and industry, and other funded projects. Dr. McKinnon is a fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America and has over forty peer-reviewed publications and over 60 abstracts and invited presentations.