KOSTER, FREDERICK T., MD

EDUCATION 
 B.A. (Biology) 1966, Swarthmore College
 M.D. (Medicine) 1971, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
 Intern/Resident, 1971-1974, University of Oregon School of Medicine
 Medicine Fellow, 1974-1976, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine


 

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION (by examination)
 Licensed Physician, State of New Mexico
 National Board of Medical Examiners, 1972
 American Board of Internal Medicine, 1974
 Board qualified in Infectious Diseases, 1979


 
 

EMPLOYMENT

2010 - Present Scientist Emeritus, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM
2003 - 2010 Associate Scientist, Respiratory Immunology and Asthma Program, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM
2002 - Present Consultant, Division of Computational Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
2001 - Present Consultant, Ministry of Health, Republic of Panama
1995 - Present Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1993 - 1996 Health Science Center Epidemiologist, University of New Mexico Health Science Center
1991 Visiting Scientist and National Research Council Fellow, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC (12 months)
1990 - Present Professor of Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine
1989 - 1990 Director, HIV/Infectious Disease Clinic, UNM Hospital
1984 - 1990 Associate Professor of Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine
1984 - 1986 Member, Visiting Professor, Instituto Medicina Tropical, A. von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
1980 - 2003 Medical Staff, UNM Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM
1980 - 2003 Medical Staff, Albuquerque VA Hospital
1980 - 1984 Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine
1978 - 1980 Consulting Physician, Johns Hopkins Hospital
1977 - 1980 Staff Physician, Department of Medicine, Baltimore City Hospitals
1977 - 1980 Assistant Professor in Medicine, Johns Hopkins, University School of Medicine
1976 - 1977 Instructor in Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, MD

 
 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
 Society of Sigma Xi
 Infectious Diseases Society of America
 American Federation of Clinical Research
 Western Society of Clinical Research
 American Society of Microbiology 

 

AREAS OF RESEARCH
 Dr. Koster's research interests center around emerging viral and bacterial diseases. With an interest and background in cellular immunology, he is focusing his research on the lymphocytes participating in the immunopathogenesis of Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome (HCPS) and has investigated the cause of the lethal complication of hantavirus lung infection, cardiogenic shock, in the hamster model and has compared in vitro virus behavior among pathogenic and non-pathogenic hantaviruses. His current funded projects include in vitro dynamics of avian influenza viruses, viral dynamics of avian influenza viruses in the ferret model, and inhalation infection models of plague, anthrax and tularemia in nonhuman primates. These developed models are currently being used to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates and of post-exposure therapeutics in these Select Agent infections in nonhuman primates.

 

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REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

  1. Koster, F., K. Foucar, B. Hjelle, A. Scott, Y.-Y. Chong, R. Larson and M. McCabe: Rapid Presumptive Diagnosis of Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome by Peripheral Blood Smear Review. Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 116: 665-672, 2001.

     

  2. Chapman, L. E., B. A. Ellis, F. T. Koster, M. Sotir, T. G. Ksiazek, G. J. Mertz, P. E. Rollin, K. F. Baum, A. T. Pavia, J. C. Christenson, P. J. Rubin, H. M. Jolson, R. E. Behrman, A. S. Khan, L. J. Bell, G. L. Simpson, J. Hawk, R. C. Holman, C. J. Peters and the Ribavirin Study Group: Discriminators Between Hantavirus-Infected and -Uninfected Persons Enrolled in a Trial of Intravenous Ribavirin for Presumptive Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome. Clin. Infect. Dis. 34(3): 293-304, 2002.

     

  3. Trachtenberg, J. D., M. Jacobson, J. C. Noh, V. C. W. Tsang, J. Ndoskoi and F. T. Koster: Schistosomiasis in Expatriates in the Arusha Region of Tanzania. J. Travel Med. 9: 233-235, 2002.

     

  4. Armien, B., J. M. Pascale, V. Bayard, C. Munoz, I. Mosca, G. Guerrero, A. Armien, E. Quiroz, Z. Castillo, Y. Zaldivar, F. Gracia, B. Hjelle and F. Koster: High Seroprevalence of Hantavirus Infection on the Azuero Peninsula of Panama. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 70(6): 682-687, 2004.

     

  5. Forslund, D. W., E. L. Joyce, T. Burr, R. Picard, D. Wokoun, E. Umland, J. C. Brillman, P. Froman and F. Koster: Setting Standards for Improved Syndromic Surveillance. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Mag. 23(1): 65-70, 2004.

     

  6. Kilpatrick, E. D., M. Terajima, F. T. Koster, M. D. Catalina, J. Cruz and F. A. Ennis: Role of Specific CD8+ T Cells in the Severity of a Fulminant Zoonotic Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome. J. Immunol. 172(5): 3297-3304, 2004.

     

  7. Koster, F. and B. Hjelle: Chapter 245, Hantaviruses. In Infectious Diseases (S. L. Gorbach, J. G. Bartlett and N. R. Blacklow, eds.), Third Edition, pp. 2023-2031, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2004.

     

  8. Mertz, G. J., L. Miedzinski, D. Goade, A. T. Pavia, B. Hjelle, C. O. Hansbarger, H. Levy, F. T. Koster, K. Baum, A. Lindemulder, W. Wang, L. Riser, H. Fernandez and R. J. Whitley, for the Collaborative Antiviral Study Group: Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Trial of Intravenous Ribavirin for the Treatment of Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome in North America. Clin. Infect. Dis. 39(9): 1307-1313, 2004.

     

  9. Campen, M. J., M. L. Milazzo, C. F. Fulhorst, C. J. Obot Akata and F. Koster: Characterization of Shock in a Hamster Model of Hantavirus Infection. Virology 356(1-2): 45-49, 2006.

     

  10. Iralu, J., Y. Bai, L. Crook, B. Tempest, G. Simpson, T. McKenzie and F. Koster: Rodent-Associated Bartonella Febrile Illness, Southwestern United States. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 12(7): 1081-1086, 2006.

     

  11. Xiao, R., S. Yang, F. Koster, C. Ye, C. Stidley and B. Hjelle: Sin Nombre Viral RNA Load in Patients with the Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome. J. Infect. Dis. 194(10): 1403-1409, 2006.

     

  12. Burr, T., F. Koster, R. Picard, D. Forslund, D. Wokoun, E. Joyce, J. Brillman, P. Froman and J. Lee: Computer-Aided Diagnosis with Potential Application to Rapid Detection of Disease Outbreaks. Stat. Med. 26(8): 1857-1874, 2007.

     

  13. Chang, B., M. Crowley, M. Campen and F. Koster: Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome. Semin. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 28(2): 193-200, 2007.

     

  14. Warrender, C., S. Forrest and F. Koster: Modeling Intercellular Interactions in Early Mycobacterium Infection. Bull. Math. Biol. 68(8): 2233-2261, 2007.

     

  15. Eyzaguirre, E. J., M. L. Milazzo, F. T. Koster and C. F. Fulhorst: Choclo Virus Infection in the Syrian Golden Hamster. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 78(4): 669-674, 2008.
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