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David C Sokal
I obtained my undergraduate degree from Columbia University, followed by an MD degree from SUNY Buffalo in 1976, and trained clinically in pediatrics at the Phoenix Hospitals Associated Pediatric Program in Arizona. Following my clinical training, I joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1978, and worked as a medical epidemiologist at CDC in Atlanta for four years. I worked in Burkina Faso, West Africa for five years, 1980-82 and 1985-87 before joining FHI.
At FHI since August, 1987, I worked for five years in FHI’s AIDSTECH project, helping to prevent the spread of HIV in developing countries. I helped develop several computer models of the AIDS epidemic, including The Futures Group’s AIDS Impact Model (now the Spectrum model), and also helped develop HIV surveillance and prevention projects in several African countries.
In FHI's biomedical research group since 1992, I have worked on research studies in the areas of male and female sterilization, and vaginal barrier methods. I prepared and presented clinical data for two pre-IND meetings with the FDA, and helped prepare clinical presentations for FDA review panels for two devices for permanent female contraception that were subsequently approved: the Filshie Clip (1996), and the Essure device (2003). I am leading FHI's research on clinical studies of vasectomy techniques. In 2008, as a result of my vasectomy research, the American Urological Association invited me to join an AUA panel to help develop vasectomy guidelines for US surgeons – I am the only non-surgeon on the panel. I have recently become involved in exploring a new approach to facilitate adult male circumcisions, with the use of a novel Chinese device, the Shang Ring and am the Principal Investigator for a Gates grant to conduct clinical trials of the device in Africa.
I am author or co-author of over 70 articles published in refereed medical journals, and have obtained five patents for FHI: one for a novel method of nonsurgical fallopian tube occlusion and four for a new vaginal barrier device. I am the sole inventor or co-inventor on two pending patents, respectively, one for a vasectomy device and one for a modified nipple shield for the prevention of HIV transmission during breast feeding. I speak French fluently, am Board Certified in General and Preventive Medicine, and am an Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, UNC/Chapel Hill.
CURRICULUM VITAE - David C Sokal
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