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Natasha Hala
sa\, MD\, MPH
Craig Weaver Professor of Pediatrics Director\, Vander
bilt Infection Surveillance and Prevention Research (VISPR) Program\,
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Influen
za Vaccine: Optimization
Strategies in Immunocompromised Hos
ts
This hybrid event is hosted by the Department of Pediatrics\, Division of Infec tious Diseases.
If you cannot attend in person\, you can join via this Zoom link. Re gistration is not required.
Dr. Halasa is t he Craig Weaver Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Infect ious Diseases at Vanderbilt University. Her research involves determining t he burden of diarrheal and respiratory illnesses in young children and spec ialized populations and finding ways to reduce their burden (e.g. through v accine\, drugs\, etc...).
Since 2002\, Dr. Halasa has been involved i n vaccine trials enrolling children from all ages\, including young infants and specialized populations such as children with cancer. The vaccine tria ls that Dr. Halasa has been involved with in the past include influenza vac cines (both the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine and the cold-adapte d influenza vaccine)\, pertussis vaccines\, pneumococcal\, and RSV vaccines . In addition\, she has the expertise in vaccine protocol development. She was the PI of a respiratory viral surveillance study in Amman\, Jordan\, wh ich was funded by the Union Bank of Switzerland. Currently\, Dr. Halasa is PI of the Vanderbilt site of the New Vaccine Surveillance Netwo rk initially established in 1999 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Contro l and Prevention (CDC) to predict the impact of potential new vaccines.
J. Neal Middelkamp\, MD\, earned a medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in 1948 and completed a residency\, including a stint as chief resident in pediatrics at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in 1953. He joined the faculty at the School of Medicine in 1953 and became a professor in 19 70. While in pediatrics\, he was director of the department’s Division of I nfectious Diseases and the Division of Ambulatory Pediatrics. He became pro fessor emeritus in 1998.
Middelkamp and his wife\, Lois\, esta blished the J. Neal and Lois Middelkamp Visiting Professorship in Pediatric s to support a pediatric lectureship in infectious diseases and advances in pediatric education for medical students\, residents and pediatricians\, a ll life-long interests of Middelkamp.
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