Lawrence D. Gelb, MD

Professor of Medicine

Dr. Gelb received his MD degree from Harvard University. He completed his internal medicine training and fellowship in infectious diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He served in the Public Health Service working in a virology laboratory at the NIH prior to joining the faculty in the Infectious Diseases Division in 1973. He is currently partially retired and working as an attending in the Infectious Diseases outpatient clinic.

Research Interests

Dr. Gelb's research interests center around basic and clinical virology. He has been working with the varicella-zoster virus for over 25 years and did some of the early US work on the live-attenuated vaccine. He is currently finishing a nation-wide multicenter study investigating the potential of an increased potency varicella vaccine to prevent or ameliorate shingles in an older population. This study, which involved over 38,000 subjects, has been completed and the data are being analyzed. The results should be ready for publication this year .

Link to Medline for selected publications

Office Location:
Washington University School of Medicine
Storz Building
4570 Children's Place
St. Louis, MO 63110

Telephone: (314) 362-9089
Fax: (314) 454-9851
Email: ldgelb@swbell.net