Zell McGee, MD
Dr. McGee is an Emeritus Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases; he came to the University of Utah from Vanderbilt University, where he was Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases. He gives an occasional Grand Rounds and teaches in a clinical setting at the University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah. He has been the recipient of many teaching awards, and teaches the teaching of Infectious Diseases in the Division. For three years he was the Chair of the Bacteriology and Mycology Study Section I for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH.
Dr. McGee's research and publishing activities have focused on: 1) the diagnosis and management of acute Meningitis (See Infections of the Nervous System in the 1st Edition of Wilson and Sande's Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Infectious Diseases; and 2) on the molecular pathogenesis of the ectopic pregnancy and infertility that often follow acute gonococcal salpingitis.
Five of Dr. McGee's former Fellows are Chief's of Divisions of Infectious Diseases in other medical schools, from Dalhousie University, in Nova Scotia, Canada, to the Royal Brisbane Hospital in Brisbane, Australia, and others are Chiefs in the US.
