Neil R. Blacklow, MD, is Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, and founding Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at that institution. In addition, he is a Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has conducted extensive research on the etiology, pathogenesis, and diagnosis of viral gastroenteritis, most notably illness involving norovirus, rotavirus, and astrovirus. The co-discoverer of adenovirus-associated viruses, he showed that these viruses infect humans. He also has directed an AIDS Clinical Trials Group center. Dr. Blacklow also served as editor-in-chief for NEJM Journal Watch Infectious Diseases for 10 years.

Information about this editor was up to date at the time of his last affiliation with NEJM Journal Watch.