Scholars@Duke
David F. Katz

David F. Katz

Nello L. Teer, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Box 90281, Durham, NC 27708-0281
1391 CIEMAS, Durham, NC 27708
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Service to the Profession

Advisory Board Member - Oversight of all activities related to research and development for prevention of infection by HIV and other sexuallly transmitted pathogens. · 2014 - 2020 Committee Service Population Council, New York, NY

Member of advisory board the reviews each year R&D work by the Population Council in STD prevention, now being linked to its longstanding work in contraception.
Member - Determining standards for safe formulations applied vaginally · 2013 - 2019 Committee Service World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Member of core committee analyzing existing data, proposing additional scientific needs, and translating this to ongoing advisory notices about standards for safe products.
Member of Board of Directors - Board of Director member · 2010 - 2014 Committee Service Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina (now Planned Parenthood South Atlantic), Chapel Hill, NC

Member of Board of Directors and now ad hoc member of Planned Parenthood South Atlantic
Panel member - US FDA Obstetrics and Gynecology Advisory Panel · 2010 - 2020 Committee Service US FDA, Washington, DC

Ongoing member, initially regular, and now ad hoc (3 year regular member restriction) of the Advisory Panel of US FDA that reviews new and current products for applications in obstetrics and gynecology for diagnosis, prophylaxis and therapy.
Committee member - Design and evaluation of application of methods for quality control of products distributed internationally, primarily to developing countries, for contraception and prevention of sexually transmitted infections. · 1995 - 2020 Committee Service Family Health International 360, US Agency for International Development, RTP, Arlington, VA.

Core member of committee that advises USAID in selection and quality control for its distribution contraceptive and anti-STD products. This is linked, in part, to the Pepfar program.
Committee (Study Section) member - Review of reseach grant and contract applications. · 1985 - 2020 Committee Service National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC, Bethesda, MD

Ongoing member of numerous NIH Study Sections, including being the Chair.
Reviewer of manuscripts - Review of manuscripts · 1983 - 2020 Editorial Activities Numerous scientific publications, Numerous journal homes

Review of manuscripts for numerous scientific and biomedical journals including PLOS ONE, Biophysical Journal, Antiviral Research, Antimicrobical Agents and Chemotherapy, Contracetion, Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Physics of Fluids, Journal of Andrology, Biology of Reproduction

Service to Duke

Curriculum Committee (Department) · 2016 - 2020 Committee Service Duke University, Durham, NC

Chair of Curriculum Committee of Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Committee on Misconduct in Research (University) · 2014 - 2018 Committee Service Duke University, Durham, NC

Committee member
Committee on implementation of statistics in the BME curriculum (Department) · 2013 - 2015 Committee Service Duke University, Durham, NC

Member of BME committee that defined and distributed the teaching of statistical methodology in the BME curriculum.