Professor of Medicine and Microbiology Immunology
			University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
			School of Medicine
			CB# 7031, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
			
			Chapel Hill, 
			NC
			USA
			27599
			marcia_hobbs@med.unc.edu
			
			
Biographical Sketch:
Member, American Society for Microbiology				1994 - present
Member, American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association		2010 - present
Member, WHO STD Diagnostics Initiative website editorial board	2003 - present		
Member, CDC Expert panels on Trichomoniasis				2013, 2009
Chair, NIAID STI/TM CRC Diagnostics Working Group 		2005 - 2009
Associate Editor, Sexually Transmitted Infections special issue		2012 – 2013
   on T. vaginalis
Authorship on 60 peer-reviewed articles on the pathogenesis, epidemiology and diagnosis of STIs including over 20 papers on T. vaginalis.  Lead author of the T. vaginalis chapter in Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 4th edition.  KK Holmes,  PF Sparling, WE Stamm, P Piot, JN Wasserheit, L Corey, MS Cohen and DH Watts, editors.  McGraw Hill, New York, NY. pp. 771-793; 2008.