David Tribble, MD, DrPH

Biology (BA), Hendrix College, Conway, AR
Medicine (MD), University of Arkansas College of Medicine, Little Rock, AR
Public health (MPH and DrPH), Uniformed Services University (USU), Bethesda, MD
Internal Medicine, Naval Hospital Portsmouth, Portsmouth, VA
Infectious Diseases, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD

Dr. Tribble completed his medical training at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences followed by Internal Medicine residency at the Naval Hospital Portsmouth, Infectious Diseases fellowship at the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC), and a Doctorate in Public Health at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU). After assignments at the Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 in Cairo, Egypt, NNMC Infectious Diseases Division, and the Enteric Diseases Department, Naval Medical Research Center, Dr. Tribble joined the faculty at USU to establish the Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program (IDCRP), a Department of Defense and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID)/National Institutes of Health (NIH) collaborative research program. As IDCRP Science Director, Dr. Tribble provides senior leadership for strategic planning and clinical research. Dr. Tribble’s areas of research focus include trauma-related infectious complications, SSTI epidemiology and S. aureus infection prevention strategies, deployment/travel-associated infection epidemiology and clinical management. Dr. Tribble has also had longstanding research efforts in the field of bacterial diarrheal disease vaccine development including development and investigation of experimental infection models in volunteers, with particular emphasis on Campylobacter jejuni.