Dr. E. Jane Carter of the USA took up her new role as the North America Region President and Regional Representative to The Union Board in March. Dr Carter is Associate Professor of Medicine, Divisions of Infectious Disease, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, Providence, RI. Dr. Carter has directed the Brown Kenya Medical Exchange Program for over 10 years, partnering with Moi University School of Medicine in Eldoret, Kenya as part of the AMPATH Consortium. Trained in Pulmonary Medicine, Dr. Carter has focused her career on Tuberculosis, working both domestically as well as internationally. She is the TB/HIV technical consultant for USAID AMPATH partnership in Kenya. Her present work is in intensied case nding for TB, the intersection of TB with both reproductive health as well as diabetes in the developing world, and practice models for management of MDR TB. With her additional focus on medical education, Dr. Carter is the US pulmonary PI for the NHLBI CardioPulmonary Center of Excellence Award, the US PI for the Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars and Fellows program both partnered with Moi University School of Medicine in Eldoret, Kenya and the Kenya country representative for the Lifespan-Tufts Fogarty Aids International Training Research Program.