Dr. Dacso is the Chair ad interim of the
Department of Global Health and an Associate
Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine in the Department
of Internal Medicine. He also serves as Director of Academic
Partnership for the UTMB Center for Global and Community Health and as
the Director of the 4-year Global Health Scholarly Concentration in the
John Sealy School of Medicine. He is a general internist and global
health practitioner who has extensive field experience forming
partnerships with institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and
the Caribbean that are rooted in relationships, respect, and
reciprocity. He has participated in capacity-strengthening initiatives
in the areas of clinical care, medical education, One Health, and
emerging pathogens research. To this end, he currently serves as
principal investigator for a collaborative multidisciplinary research
initiative in the Dominican Republic focused on characterizing the
epidemiology, clinical features, and vector ecology surrounding acute
undifferentiated febrile illnesses, specifically centered on emerging
and re-emerging arboviral pathogens.
As
a clinician, he provides care in the outpatient primary care clinics as
well as the inpatient teaching service. He is the Education and
Training Lead for the Special Pathogens Excellence in Clinical
Treatment, Readiness, and Education (SPECTRE) program and an active
member of the Biocontainment Care Unit response team. He is also a
member of the UTMB Academy of Master Teachers, a Faculty Scholar in the
John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine, and a member of both
Alpha Omega Alpha and the Delta Omega Honor Society for Public Health.
Curriculum Vitae (CV)