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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 30 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 263 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. |
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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. |
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| Edgar K. Marcuse, MD, MPH |
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University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle Children's
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 Community Medicine in
Seattle, WA. He is also associate medical director for quality improvement
at Seattle Children's. 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 and co-editor of AAP Grand Rounds. |
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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. |
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Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation
Dr. Orenstein, pediatric infectious disease specialist, serves as a deputy
director for Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Integrated Health Solutions
Development of the Global Health Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation. From March 2004 to October 2008 Dr. Orenstein was the director
of the Program for Vaccine Policy and Development and associate director
of the Emory Vaccine Center at the Emory University School of Medicine.
Prior to that, he served for more than 25 years at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), including as director of the former National
Immunization Program (now called the National Center for Immunization and
Respiratory Diseases). Dr. Orenstein is a co-editor of the fifth edition
of the textbook "Vaccines," as well as more than 200 other works. He is a
renowned national and international speaker and the recipient of numerous
awards. |
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Consultant in Vaccinology
Dr. Plotkin, pediatric infectious disease specialist, is a consultant in
vaccinology and Emeritus Professor of the University of Pennsylvania. From
1991 to April 2009, he worked at sanofi pasteur as Medical and Scientific
Director and, most recently, Executive Advisor to the CEO. Prior to 1991,
Dr. Plotkin was Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology at the University
of Pennsylvania, Professor of Virology at the Wistar Institute, and at the
same time, Director of Infectious Diseases and Senior Physician at the
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Plotkin's healthcare career spans
more than fifty years of brilliant service. He has been chairman of the
Infectious Diseases Committee and the AIDS Task Force of the American
Academy of Pediatrics, liaison member of the Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices and Chairman of the Microbiology and Infectious
Diseases Research Committee of the National Institutes of Health. Dr.
Plotkin has received numerous awards, including the Bruce Medal in
Preventive Medicine of the American College of Physicians, the
Distinguished Physician Award of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Society, the French Legion of Honor Medal, the Distinguished Alumnus and
the Gold Medal Award of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the Sabin
Gold Medal award, the Fleming (Bristol) Award of the Infectious Diseases
Society of America, the medal of the Fondation Merieux, the Finland Award
of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, and the Hilleman Award
of the American Society for Microbiology. Dr. Plotkin has authored more
than 675 articles and has edited several books including the standard
textbook "Vaccines." He developed the rubella vaccine now in standard use
throughout the world, is co-developer of the newly licensed pentavalent
rotavirus vaccine, and has worked extensively on the development and
application of other vaccines including polio, rabies, varicella, and
cytomegalovirus. |
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Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Dr. Gregory Poland is the Director of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group
- a state-of-the-art research group and laboratory that investigates
issues surrounding vaccine response and novel vaccines important to public
health. He is a Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases and
Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, the Director of the
Immunization Clinic and the Director of the Program in Translational
Immunovirology and Biodefense at Mayo Clinic. He also serves as the
American Editor for the journal Vaccine. In December 2006, Dr.
Poland was elected as the President of the Defense Health Board, serving
two terms. He was appointed as the Mary Lowell Leary Professor in Medicine
(the highest academic distinction for a faculty member) by Mayo Clinic's
Board of Trustees in 2004. Since 2004, Dr. Poland has also served on the
Infectious Diseases Society of America Taskforce on Pandemic Influenza.
Dr. Poland has received many awards, including the Secretary of Defense
Award for Excellence in December 2008, the Hsu prize in International
Infectious Disease Epidemiology in 2007 given by the University of Iowa,
and the Charles Merieux Lifetime Achievement Award in Vaccinology from the
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases in May 2006. In May 2003, he
was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service.
In 1998, he received a joint award from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention and the Health Care Financing Administration for his
contribution to increasing adult immunization rates in the U.S., which was
awarded by the Surgeon General of the United States. Also of major
significance, in 1997, he was honored as the Outstanding Clinical
Investigator of the Year by Mayo Clinic. Additionally, Dr. Poland
participates on many national and academic review committees and actively
peer-reviews journal articles for over 26 different publications such as
The Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, and New England
Journal of Medicine. A prolific writer, Dr. Poland has published over
300 peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters. |
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| Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg, MD |
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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. |
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Minnesota Gastroenterology, Minneapolis, MN
Dr. Smith is a hepatologist at Minnesota Gastroenterology in Minneapolis,
MN, and a transplant hepatologist and professor of Medicine at the
University of Minnesota. He also organizes the GI fellow rotation at
Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. Dr. Smith received his
medical training in Sydney, Australia, and completed his doctoral thesis
at the University of Queensland in Australia. He worked in research and
clinical hepatology fellowship positions at the Rigshospitalet in
Copenhagen, Denmark, University of Southern California, and Stanford
University. Dr. Smith is the author of many publications and has written
several articles for IAC on the care of the adult who is chronically
infected with hepatitis. |
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| Richard K. Zimmerman, MD, MPH |
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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 has been 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. |
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