Program Committee

Stan L. Block, MD, FAAP*
Editorial Board Member
Infectious Diseases in Children
President, Kentucky Pediatric/
Adult Research
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
University of Louisville
University of Kentucky
Bardstown, Kentucky

Joseph A. Bocchini Jr., MD*
Editorial Board Member
Infectious Diseases in Children
Professor and Chairman
Department of Pediatrics
Louisiana State University
Health Sciences Center
Shreveport, Louisiana

James H. Brien, DO*
Editorial Board Member
Infectious Diseases in Children
Vice Chair for Education
Department of Pediatrics
Scott and White
Children's Health Center
Texas A&M College of Medicine
Temple, Texas

Kathryn M. Edwards, MD
Editorial Board Member
Infectious Diseases in Children
Sarah H. Sell Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Vanderbilt Vaccine
Research Program
Division of Infectious Diseases
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

Richard F. Jacobs, MD
Chief Medical Editor
Infectious Diseases in Children
Professor and Chair
Department of Pediatrics
Robert H. Fiser Jr., MD
Endowed Chair in Pediatrics
University of Arkansas
for Medical Sciences
President Arkansas Children's
Hospital Research Institute
Little Rock, Arkansas

Sheldon L. Kaplan, MD
Editorial Board Member
Infectious Diseases in Children
Professor and Vice Chairman for
Clinical Affairs
Head, Section of Infectious Diseases
Department of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Chief, Infectious Disease Service
Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, Texas

Paul A. Offit, MD*
Editorial Board Member
Infectious Diseases in Children
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
The Children’s Hospital
of Philadelphia
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Larry K. Pickering, MD, FAAP*
Editorial Board Member
Infectious Diseases in Children
Executive Secretary, ACIP
Senior Advisor to the Director of
the National Center for Immunization
and Respiratory Diseases
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
Department of Pediatrics
Emory University
School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

(*2011 Presenter)

Faculty

Kenneth Alexander, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Section of Pediatric
Infectious Diseases
The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Michael J. Beach, PhD
Associate Director for Healthy Water
National Center for Emerging and
Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia

Henry “Hank” H. Bernstein, DO
Professor of Pediatrics
Hofstra-North Shore-LIJ School
of Medicine
Vice Chairman,
Department of Pediatrics
Chief, General Pediatrics
Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s
Medical Center of New York
New Hyde Park, New York

Michael T. Brady, MD
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
The Ohio State University
Physician-in-Chief
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Columbus, Ohio

Jane C. Finlay, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada

Gary Goodman, MD
Medical Director
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
and Hospitalist Service
Children’s Hospital of
Orange County at Mission
Mission Viejo, California

Allan S. Lieberthal, MD
Pediatrician
Kaiser Permanente
Panorama City, California
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

Cyrus Rangan, MD, FAAP, FACMT
Medical Toxicologist
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Director, Bureau of Toxicology
Los Angeles County Department
of Public Health
Assistant Medical Director
California Poison Control System
Los Angeles, California

Lorry G. Rubin, MD
Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s
Medical Center of New York
Professor of Pediatrics
Hofstra-North Shore-LIJ
School of Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New Hyde Park, New York

Mark H. Sawyer, MD
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
UCSD School of Medicine and
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego
San Diego, California

Mary Allen Staat, MD, MPH
Professor, Pediatrics Division
of Infectious Diseases
Director, International Adoption Center
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio

Jeffrey R. Starke, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Director
Children’s Tuberculosis Clinic
of Houston
Houston, Texas

Russell W. Steele, MD
Division Head
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Ochsner Children’s Health Center
Clinical Professor
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana

James K. Todd, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology
and Epidemiology
University of Colorado School
of Medicine and Colorado School
of Public Health
Jules Amer Chair of Community
Pediatrics Children’s Hospital Colorado
Denver, Colorado

Albert C. Yan, MD, FAAP, FAAD
Chief
Pediatric Dermatology
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania