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Dr. R. Wesley Farr, Lecturer, teaches environmental health, aerospace toxicology, global health, and infectious diseases for the UWF Department of Public Health

Farr is a physician with specialties in Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Aerospace Medicine.  He continues part-time work in Infectious Diseases.

He was previously on the Infectious Diseases faculty at West Virginia University where he was Director of the International Health program, Director of the Clinical Tropical Medicine and Parasitology Course, and Activity Director of the annual AIDS in West Virginia Conference.

He retired from the US Navy in 2015 after serving as Senior Medical Officer on the USS Harry S Truman, Director of the Military Tropical Medicine Course, and Executive Officer of the Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center.  He was a medical advisor to the ANA Regional Hospital in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan.

Before coming to UWF in 2018, he worked at Joint Ambulatory Care Center (VA) and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

He received his bachelor鈥檚 degree in Biology, Doctor of Medicine degree, and Masters in Public Health degree from West Virginia University.

Sophia Pathai, MD, PhD, MSc is a physician with over 20 years of clinical and professional experience, including as an ophthalmologist in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), as a clinician scientist and faculty member at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and as a Staff Ophthalmologist on the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital. She later transitioned to the corporate sector, serving in global leadership roles in clinical development and medical affairs at Roche, AbbVie, and Johnson & Johnson.
Dr. Pathai holds an MBBS (medical degree) and BSc in Tumor Biology from University College London Medical School, and a Masters in Epidemiology and PhD from LSHTM. Her PhD, which was funded by a Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellowship, investigated clinical aspects of accelerated biological aging. She is a Member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (London), a Member of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Physicians, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. She was a mentor for the Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award Program and is a board member of Orbis UK.