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Dr. John I. Gallin

Director of the NIH Clinical Center

Dr. John Gallin was appointed director of the NIH Clinical Center in 1994 after serving 9 years as Scientific Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.  The Clinical Center serves the clinical research needs of 17 NIH institutes and is the largest hospital in the world totally dedicated to clinical research.  During his tenure, Dr. Gallin has overseen the design and construction of a new research hospital for the Clinical Center, the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, which opened to patients in 2005; the establishment of a new curriculum for clinical research training now offered globally; and development of new information systems for biomedical translational and clinical research.  In 2011, under Dr. Gallin’s leadership, the NIH Clinical Center received the Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award.  While serving as CC director, Dr. Gallin has continued to be an active clinician and researcher.  His primary research interest is in a rare hereditary immune disorder, chronic granulomatous disease (CGD).  His laboratory described the genetic basis for several forms of CGD and has done pioneering research that has reduced life-threatening bacterial and fungal infections in CGD patients.

He has published more than 330 articles in scientific journals and has edited two textbooks – Inflammation, Basic Principles and Clinical Correlates (Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, 1999, 3rd edition) and Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (Academic Press, 2002, 2nd edition). Dr. Gallin is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and he is a Master of the American College of Physicians.