Dr. Connor is a board-certified gastroenterologist and internist whose work spans travel and tropical medicine, gastrointestinal infectious and parasitic diseases, and complex post-travel illness.

He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and an attending physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He founded and directs the New York Center for Travel and Tropical Medicine, serves as New York City site director for GeoSentinel, and is a past president of the International Society of Travel Medicine.

His clinical research has included field studies and trials in Nepal and Vietnam, with particular attention to travelers’ diarrhea, persistent gastrointestinal illness, emerging infections, and post-infectious disorders. Since 1999, he has served as an advisor to the White House Medical Unit and has consulted for the CDC on global migration and quarantine. He has also contributed to the CDC Yellow Book, a leading reference for international travel health.

Dr. Connor has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and co-edits the textbook Travel Medicine. His career has combined patient care, clinical research, international medicine, and leadership in the evaluation of travel-related and emerging infectious disease.