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Hie-Won L. Hann, MD

Jefferson Medical College Dr. Hie-Won Hann, Professor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College, is the director of the Liver Disease Prevention Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. She has nearly 35 years of experience working on HBV and liver cancer. Dr. Hann has conducted 27 clinical trials which studied various antiviral agents for hepatitis B. She is a co-investigator on two current NIH-funded liver cancer research projects. She has published more than 250 scientific articles, book chapters, and abstracts and has received numerous awards, including the 2003 Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania Award from the Governor of Pennsylvania, and the 2006 Korean American Pioneer Award from Channel 6 ABC. For more than 20 years, Dr. Hann and her husband Dr. Richard Hann, an immunologist, have screened more than 25,000 Korean Americans for hepatitis B and liver cancer by visiting about 450 Korean American and some Chinese American churches. She has also been an active international speaker in the field of hepatitis B. She is a past advisor to the CDC's Hepatitis B Advisory Group for Asian/Pacific Islanders and the National Asian Pacific Leadership Initiative on Cancer and currently serves as an advisor to the Immunization Action Coalition and the Hepatitis B Foundation.

Mark A. Kane, MD, MPH

Consultant Dr. Kane, a pediatrician, is a consultant on international immunization issues. In January 2006, he retired as the Director of the Children's Vaccine Program (CVP) at PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health). CVP's mission was to improve immunization delivery to children in the developing world and help to introduce new and underutilized vaccines. Dr. Kane completed a three-year term as a Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) Board member, and served as the founding President of the Global Fund for Children's Vaccines (now the GAVI Fund). Prior to his work with PATH, Dr. Kane spent 20 years with the CDC, the last 10 of which were spent at the World Health Organization where he was responsible for the hepatitis B vaccine program.

Edgar K. Marcuse, MD, MPH

University of Washington School of Medicine Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center Dr. Marcuse is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and adjunct professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health and County Medicine. He is associate medical director at Children's Hospital & Medical Center in Seattle. A longtime national immunization advocate and prolific author of immunization articles, Dr. Marcuse has served on the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases (Red Book) and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). He is also a consultant to the Washington State Department of Health Vaccine Advisory Committee.

Brian J. McMahon, MD

Alaska Native Medical Center, Anchorage, AK Dr. McMahon, an internal medicine specialist, is director of the Viral Hepatitis Program at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK. He also serves as a research associate for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has published dozens of original articles, book chapters, and review articles. He has won numerous national awards, including an Outstanding Service Award from the United States Public Health Service, for his contributions in medicine and public health.

Gregory A. Poland, MD

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Dr. Poland is the Mary Lowell Leary Professor at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. In addition, he is director of the Mayo Vaccine Research Group; professor of medicine, infectious diseases, molecular pharmacology and experimental therapeutics; director of the Program in Translational Immunovirology and Biodefense; and associate chair for research, Department of Medicine, at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Poland is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service for serving on the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, a joint award from CDC and the Health Care Financing Administration for his contribution to increasing adult immunization rates in the U.S., and the Charles Merieux Lifetime Achievement Award in Vaccinology and Immunology from the Foundation Merieux and the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. He participates on many national and academic review committees and has served as a voting member on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Dr. Poland actively peer reviews journal articles for over 26 different publications and has published more than 260 peer-reviewed scientific articles and chapters. He is a national and international expert in the field of vaccinology and clinical research and a leading expert in the field of biodefense.

Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg, MD

University of Minnesota Dr. Schwarzenberg, is Chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. Schwarzenberg, who is a member of the Institutional Review Board at the University of Minnesota, has also authored several articles for IAC on the care of children who are chronically infected with hepatitis B.

Coleman I. Smith, MD

Minnesota Gastroenterology, Minneapolis, MN Dr. Smith is a hepatologist at Minnesota Gastroenterology in Minneapolis, MN and a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. He has done extensive research on hepatitis and is the author of many publications. Smith has written several articles for IAC on the care of the adult who is chronically infected with hepatitis.

Richard K. Zimmerman, MD, MPH

University of Pittsburgh A family physician with additional training in public health and epidemiology, Dr. Zimmerman is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine, and Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Zimmerman has served on the AAFP Commissions on Clinical Policies and Research and Public Health and Scientific Affairs; as the founding chair of the Group on Immunization Education, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine; and as a voting member of the ACIP. Dr. Zimmerman is the principal investigator on CDC-funded studies about racial disparity and adult immunization and on ways to increase influenza vaccination rates. He has won national awards for his research and curricular materials on immunization, and he has authored over 150 publications on immunizations and vaccine-preventable diseases.

This page was reviewed on July 21, 2008