James Maguire is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in the Division of Infectious Disease. After completing his training in infectious disease, he worked on Chagas disease and other tropical infections in northeast Brazil for 4 years. After returning to the US from Brazil, he was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health and served as Clinical Director of the Infectious Disease Division at BWH.
From 2001 to 2005, he was Chief of the Parasitic Diseases Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, and later, Professor and Head of the Division of International Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He has served on various committees and working groups of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), including the WHO Expert Team on SARS in China in 2003.
His research for has focused on epidemiology and clinical features of Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, malaria, toxoplasmosis and other parasitic diseases in Brazil, Bangladesh, Guatemala and elsewhere. Since returning to BWH in 2008 his focus has been on clinical infectious diseases with special interest in parasitic and tropical diseases and musculoskeletal infections.
