Faculty
  

Thomas Darden,
Deputy Director of Studies

Dr. Darden is Deputy Director of Studies and a Senior Staff Scientist at FHCRC, where he has worked since July 1998.

Prior to joining SCHARP, Dr. Darden served as manager for the Seattle-King County Public Health Department planning, funding, and evaluating a network of community-based primary health care clinics. Subsequently, he managed the HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Section of the Department, which conducted major studies including a six-year, longitudinal cohort study of IDUs; a two-year study on genotypes, risk behaviors and hepatitis C linkages; a behavioral risk assessment survey among young MSMs, and a PhI clinical trial testing the acceptance of Interferon treatment for hepatitis C among IDUs.

As Deputy Director of first the HIVNET Statistical Center and then SCHARP, Dr. Darden has been involved in all aspects of the growth and development of the organization. He was an early advocate of implementing SOPs and other essential regulatory documentation into the workplace and directed the formation of the in-house regulatory unit. He led the first reorganization of the SDMC after the HIVNET SC was funded to become the SDMC for two new networks. He managed the six-month transition and integration of AVEG's SDMC data management systems (including a different data management application), ongoing vaccine trials, and established sites from AVEG to the HVTN and SCHARP. Dr. Darden managed a small group of staff as they performed both the work of the SDMC and the CORE during the eighteen months of the HVTN and then worked out the orderly transition of functions to the expanding CORE staff. During the latter half of 2004, he led the second reorganization of SCHARP in response to the ever-changing configuration of networks as defined by NIAID. Dr. Darden has also been instrumental in leading the CIPRA project with our partners, the Chinese Center for Disease Control in Beijing.

Dr. Darden received a B.A. at Colorado College in 1963, an M.S. at the University of Arizona in 1965, and a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of California in 1970 with an emphasis on neurobiology.