Department Name Candidate’s Name

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS

EXTRAMURAL EVALUATORS

+ John Bradley, M.D.
þ / Dr. John Bradley is the Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Rady Children’s Hospital at UCSD. His clinical interests include bacterial resistance to antibiotics, research in new antibiotics/antivirals, meningitis, meningococcemia and hepatitis C virus. His research focuses on the clinical aspects of infectious diseases. He has recently been selected to participate as a reviewer on the Special Emphasis Panel of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) to review contract proposals for grants that were submitted for Targeted Clinical Trials to Reduce the Risk of Antimicrobial Resistance.
* Michael S. Caplan, M.D.
V / Dr. Michael Caplan is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at North Shore University Health System. Dr. Caplan’s research interests are to understand the pathophysiology of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis, and to design specific strategies to prevent the disease. Dr. Caplan is a reviewer for several well known journals, such as Journal of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Pediatrics Research, etc.
# Terence S. Dermody, M.D.
ý / Dr. Terence Dermody is Director of the Lamb Center for Pediatric Research, Vanderbilt Medical Scientist Training Program, and the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is also Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Dermody’s research specialties are viral infections of the central nervous system, entry of viruses into host cells, and development of new vaccine vectors. Dr. Dermody also holds the Dorothy Overall Wells Chair at Vanderbilt.
* Christopher L. Karp, M.D.
þ / Dr. Christopher Karp is Director of the Division of Molecular Immunology and Cystic Fibrosis Research Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He is also Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Karp’s research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying regulation and dysregulation of inflammatory responses in human infectious, autoimmune and genetic diseases. Dr. Karp also holds the Gunnar Esiason/Cincinnati Bell Chair of Life Sciences at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

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