Washington Basoga Association

Dr. Casper received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1997, followed by a categorical internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco.  In 2002, he also received a Masters in Public Health degree in epidemiology from the University of Washington. After completing his Infectious Disease fellowship training at the University of Washington, he joined the faculty in 2003. He currently is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington, and Assistant Member in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Public Health Sciences Division, and Clinical Research Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He is the Director of Infection Control for the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, a group which includes the University of Washington Medical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and the Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Casper’s research focuses on infection-related cancers. He is the Director of the Program in Infections and Related Cancers (PIRC) at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.  PIRC has been engaged in a collaboration with the Uganda Cancer Institute since 2004, and research is aimed at identifying how infections which cause cancer are acquired, defining optimal therapeutic strategies for the treatment and prevention of infection-related cancer, and training African health care providers to be the next generation of cancer researchers and care providers.

Dr. Casper cares for patients at various sites in Seattle, including the University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC), Harborview Medical Center (HMC), and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Dr. Casper’s clinical areas of expertise include infections in the immunocompromised host, infection with the human herpesviruses including genital herpes (HSV-2), cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), and human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8, or Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus), and the care of patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).