Dr. Paul Spearman received his MD degree from U.T. Southwestern Medical School in 1986. He then received specialty training in Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at Ohio State University and Columbus Children's Hospital. Dr. Spearman then moved to Washington University in St. Louis, where he spent four years, first as an Infectious Diseases Fellow and then Instructor in Medicine. In 1995 he was appointed Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University in the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Division. At Vanderbilt Dr. Spearman began a career as an independent scientist in the fields of HIV assembly and HIV vaccine development. He received funding from NIH and from private agencies during this period, and published widely in these fields. During his tenure at Vanderbilt, Dr. Spearman directed the laboratory operations of the Vanderbilt HIV Vaccine Trials Unit, and in later years there he assumed the role of Principal Investigator of this unit.

Dr. Spearman joined the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University as Division Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Immunology, in November 2005. Dr. Spearman sits on a number of national committees and editorial boards related to virology and infectious diseases, is a member of the AIDS Molecular and Cellular Biology NIH study section, and currently supervises four NIH-funded research projects in his laboratory.

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