CURRICULUM VITAE

KARL E. ANDERSON, M.D.                                                                                       February 2, 2006

PRESENT POSITION AND ADDRESS: 

April 1987-Present:                 Professor, Departments of Preventive Medicine and Community Health (Division of Human Nutrition), Internal Medicine (Division of Gastroenterology), and Pharmacology and Toxicology

September 1990-Present:                Director, Division of Human Nutrition

December 1993-Present:                Associate Program Director, General Clinical Research Center

September 1998-Present:                Director, Clinical Research Education Office. 

Office:                            Ewing Hall (3.102L), 700 Harborside Drive, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555-1109.

Telephone: 409-772-4661.  FAX: 409-772-6287.  Email: kanderso@utmb.edu. 

BIOGRAPHICAL:

Born:                              May 16, 1940.  Buffalo, New York

Citizenship:                   U.S.A.

Married:                         Mary Patricia Wood (Patty), Galveston, TX,  2000

Children:                        Matthew Dana, b. 1984; Gillian Carol, b. 1986; Jeffrey Karl, b. 1990

Residence:                     4726 Caduceus Place, Galveston, TX 77551. Telephone, 409-744-5737

EDUCATION AND POSTGRADUATE TRAINING:

August 1958-June 1960                 The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio

August 1960- June 1962                 The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (B.A. Degree, 6/1962)

August 1960- June 1965                The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (M.D. Degree, 6/8/1965)

July 1965- June 1967                  Internship and Residency, Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee.

July 1967- June 1968                 Residency, Internal Medicine, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, N. Y.

July 1968- June 1970                Fellowship in Gastroenterology, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, N. Y.

PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

 

1970-1971                       Instructor in Medicine, Cornell University Medical College, New York, N.Y.

1968-1971                       Guest Investigator, The Rockefeller University, New York, N. Y.

1971-1973                       Clinical Investigation Department, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No.2, Taipei, Taiwan

1973-1979                       Assistant Professor, The Rockefeller University.  Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cornell University Medical College

1979-1985                       Associate Professor and Physician, The Rockefeller University

1979-1987                       Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Cornell University Medical College

1982-1987                       Adjunct Attending Physician, Department of Medicine (Gastroenterology), Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y.

1985-1987                       Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, and Director, Clinical Research Center, New York Medical College, Valhalla, N.Y. 

1985-1986                       Medical Director, The Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Valhalla, N.Y.

1985-1990                       Adjunct Professor and Visiting Physician, The Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y. 

April 1987-current                Professor, Departments of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, Internal Medicine, and Pharmacology and Toxicology; Member, Graduate Faculty; Active Member of the Medical Staff, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.

April 1987-1990                Associate Director, Division of Human Nutrition, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.

September 1990-current                Director, Division of Human Nutrition.  The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.

December 1993-current                Associate Program Director, General Clinical Research Center, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Acting Program Director, 2002. 

September 1998-current                Director, Clinical Research Education Office, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas. 

July 2000-2003                Co-Director, Gastrointestinal/Nutrition Course, School of Medicine, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas. 

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:

A.  Area of Research:                  Nutritional pharmacology, including effects of diet on drug metabolism

Porphyrias and other disorders of heme metabolism in man. 

B.  Grant Support:  (since 1986)

 

 

 

 

Funding Period

Agency

Title

 Direct Costs

Total Costs

Start

End

USPHS-FDA Orphan Drug Program

LHRH Analogue for Prevention of Porphyric Attacks

$115,338

$170,934

9/30/86

1/31/90

American Porphyria Foundation

Porphyria Research Fund

$2,000

$2,000

8/1/87

7/31/96

TAP Pharmaceuticals

Porphyria Research Fund

$4,706

$4,706

8/1/87

7/31/96

American Porphyria Foundation

Porphyria Research Fund

$1,000

$1,000

8/1/87

7/31/96

Rockefeller University

Comparison of the Effects of Diet and Cimetidine on Hepatic Drug Oxidation Rates in Man

$35,000

$35,000

10/1/87

8/31/93

USPHS-FDA Orphan Drug Program

Erythropoietin for  Hemodialysis-Associated Porphyria

$53,556

$75,097

1/1/89

12/31/91

R. W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute

Histrelin for Prevention of Porphyria Attacks

$24,500

$26,950

6/1/89

6/30/92

American Porphyria Foundation

Nutritional Factors in Acute Intermittent Porphyria

$1,000

$1,000

5/4/89

7/31/96

American Porphyria Foundation

Nutritional Factors in Acute Intermittent Porphyria

$5,000

$5,000

8/5/89

7/31/96

American Porphyria Foundation

Treatment of Acute Porphyrias with Heme Arginate

$5,000

$5,000

11/1/90

7/31/96

Amgen, Inc.

Studies on the treatment of porphyria cutanea tarda associated with hemodialysis

$36,364

$40,000

2/1/91

8/31/97

Metabolic Solutions, Inc. (NIH SBIR Grant collaborative agreement)

Effects of Diet on Caffeine and Methacetin Breath Tests

$6,500

$9,425

4/1/92

4/1/93

 

Intramural Small Grant, University of Texas Medical Branch (Guion Pool Keating Cancer Fund and the UTMB Annual Fund)

Chloroquine to Control Photosensitivity from Therapeutic Porphyrins

$12,500

$12,500

4/1/92

3/31/93

 


Grant Support (cont'd):

 

 

Direct

Total

Funding Period

Agency

Title

 Costs

Costs

Start

End

American Porphyria Foundation

Endocrine Manipulation for Cyclic Attacks of Porphyria

$5,000

$5,000

8/1/92

4/30/94

USPHS-FDA Orphan Drug Program

Heme Arginate for Treatment of Acute Porphyria

$231,240

$339,923

8/1/92

7/31/95

Haskell B. Smith

Bequest for Porphyria Research

$23,284

$23,284

9/1/92

3/31/94

Amgen, Inc.

Studies on the treatment of porphyria cutanea tarda associated with hemodialysis

$44,000

$48,400

2/1/93

7/31/97

Leiras Oy Pharmaceuticals

Heme Arginate for Acute Porphyria

$225,344

$247,878

3/1/93

Open

American Porphyria Foundation

Drug Safety in Porphyria

$10,000

$10,000

5/1/94

7/31/96

Pfizer, Inc.

An Open Study to Compare the Safety, Toleration and Pharmacokinetics of Oral CP-99,219 in Patients with Chronic Hepatic Insufficiency and in Healthy Subjects

$208,815

$260,525

5/1/94

7/31/97

USPHS-FDA Orphan Drug Program

Heme Arginate for Treatment of Acute Porphyria

$362,419

$541,816

8/1/95

7/31/98

Pfizer, Inc.

Phase I, Multiple Dose Open Study Designed to Compare the Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Ziprasidone in Subjects with Normal Hepatic Function to Subjects with Hepatic Impairment

$50,544

$67,392

11/7/96

7/31/97

American Porphyria Foundation

Telemedicine in Porphyria

$15,000

$15,000

1/1/97

Open

DUSA Pharmaceuticals

A long term study of acute intermittent porphyria

$36,750

$45,973

7/7/97

9/30/98

USPHS-FDA Orphan Drug Program     FD-R-001459

Tin Mesoporphyrin and Heme Therapy in Acute Porphyria

$591,884

$887,826

9/30/97

4/30/03

USPHS-National Heart Lung and Blood Institute

K30 HL04126

Clinical Research Education Program at UTMB

$924,377

$997,699

6/1/99

5/31/05

American Porphyria Foundation

Drug Safety in Acute Porphyria

$10,000

$10,000

8/1/00

Open

USPHS-NIH

K07 HL04326-01

Development of a Longitudinal Nutrition Curriculum

(Subcontract; PI: Marilyn Edwards, PhD, UT Houston)

$30,825

$33,291

4/1/00

3/31/02

USPHS-National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol

1-RO1 AA12852

Alcohol-induced cytochromes P450 in HCV/HIV oxidative injury (Subcontract; PI: Steven Shedlofsky, MD, U KY)

$62,250

$92,752

9/30/00

9/29/04

US Army

BC004028

 

Soybean Diet and Breast Density (PI: Lee-Jane Lu, PhD)

$2,001,452

$2,983,163

9/1/01

8/31/07

American Institute for Cancer Research

Comparative Hormonal Effects of Diets Containing Soy and Animal Protein

$149,920

$164,912

9/1/01

12/30/05

American Porphyria Foundation

Drug Safety in Acute Porphyria (support for further studies)

$15,000

$15,000

10/1/02

Open

NIH 1RO1CA95545-01A1

Mammographic Density and Soy Isoflavones

(PI: Lee-Jane Lu, PhD)

$631,881

$1,418,535

09/15/03

08/31/07


 

 

 

 

 

Funding Period

Agency

Title

 Direct Costs

Total Costs

Start

End

Zymenex (formerly HemeBiotech) A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark

A multicentre, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel group trial investigating the efficacy and safety to Porphozym™ (recombinant human porphobilinogen deaminase) in the treatment of acute attacks in AIP

$113,500

$14,188

4/23/03-

4/26/06

USPHS-NIH

(funding to UTMB through Wyle Laboratories)

1RO1GM64797

(Co-investigator; PI:  Putscha, L.) -

Bioavailability and Pharmacodynamics of Promethazine in Human Subjects

~$100,000

~$100,000

8/10/02

11/30/05

USPHS-FDA Orphan Drug Program     FD-R-002604

Hydroxychloroquine vs. Phlebotomy for Porphyria Cutanea Tarda

$584,204

$861,049

9/30/05

9/30/08