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Campollo 2.6.08
RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES
HIV and Hepatitis in Drug Users in West Central Mexico
Dr. Octavio Campollo
Dr. Octavio Campollo is an M.D. from the Universidad La Salle and completed a Ph.D. in liver diseases at the Royal Free Hospital (University of London, 1989) with a Postdoc in pharmacology and molecular sciences at Johns Hopkins University. He has worked on alcoholic liver disease, viral hepatitis, and more recently got involved in epidemiology of drug addictions and prevention in youths. He has been awarded a scholarship from the Office of Academic Affairs at UNAM (Mexico), the Overseas Research Students award (UK), the CB Smith Grant from the University of Texas and the Misión México-Canada on two occasions. He teaches courses on research methodology of clinical trials, and mathematics in medicine at the medical school at the University of Guadalajara (UDG). He founded and is head of the Center for Studies on Alcohol and Addictions at the UDG, and recently opened the Smoking cessation clinic at the Hospital Civil de Guadalajara. Major projects include risk factors for drug use by students; viral hepatitis and HIV in drug addicts, and content analysis in television and printed media related to alcohol and drugs.
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