David W. Kimberlin, MD, FAAP is the Principal
Investigator for the Collaborative Antiviral Study Group (CASG), an
international network of pediatric academic medical centers that
evaluates antiviral therapeutics in rare diseases with a large
unmet medical need, including neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV)
infections, congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease, congenital
Zika infection, neonatal and infantile influenza infection, and
neonatal enteroviral sepsis syndrome. Studies conducted by the CASG
have led to new drug indications and label changes for acyclovir,
valganciclovir, and oseltamivir, and non-CASG studies conducted by
Dr. Kimberlin also have led to label changes for valacyclovir.
Dr. Kimberlin is Editor of the 2018 AAP Report of the Committee on
Infectious Diseases (Red Book). He also was Editor of the 2015
edition, and was an Associate Editor of the 2012 and 2009 editions.
Dr. Kimberlin is a Past-President of the Pediatric Infectious
Diseases Society (PIDS), which is the world's largest organization
of professionals dedicated to the treatment, control, and
eradication of infectious diseases affecting children. He also
serves as Vice Chair for Clinical and Translational Research in the
UAB Department of Pediatrics, where he holds the Sergio Stagno
Endowed Chair in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and is Co-Director
of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases.
Sarah S. Long, MD, FAAP is Section Chief of Infectious
Diseases at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in
Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Long is also Professor of Pediatrics at
Drexel University College of Medicine. Dr. Long is an associate
editor of The Journal of Pediatrics and is the chief editor of the
textbook Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases.
She has received numerous teaching awards, the Distinguished
Service Award of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, the
Clinical Teacher Award of the Infectious Diseases Society of
America, and the Award for Lifetime Contribution to Infectious
Diseases Education by the Section on Infectious Diseases of the
American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr. Long completed her medical degree at Jefferson Medical
College in Philadelphia, and her residency and fellowship at St.
Christopher’s Hospital for Children. She is board certified in
pediatrics and pediatric infectious disease, and her principal
areas of research are vaccine-preventable diseases and management
of common infectious diseases in children. She sits on advisory
committees for the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug
Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Michael T. Brady MD, FAAP is Professor of Pediatrics at The
Ohio State University and Associate Medical Director at Nationwide
Children’s Hospital. Dr. Brady was on the AAP Committee on
Infectious Diseases from 2005 until 2014 (Chair from 2010 to 2014).
Dr. Brady was an Associate Editor of the 2015 Red Book. Dr. Brady
received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in
Philadelphia. His pediatric residency was completed at Nationwide
Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio and Baylor College of
Medicine in Houston. His pediatric infectious diseases fellowship
was at the Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Brady’s special
interests include HIV infection, healthcare-associated infections,
perinatal infections and vaccine-preventable infections. He is
currently a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors –
Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Mary Anne Jackson, MD, FAAP: Following residency at
Cincinnati Children’s and fellowship at the University of Texas
Southwestern, Dr. Jackson has been a faculty member at Children’s
Mercy Hospital, Kansas City since 1984 where she is Division
Director of Infectious Diseases. She has won numerous teaching
awards and was honored in 2012 as the outstanding graduate at the
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. A fellow of
the AAP, the Infectious Disease Society of America and the
Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, she has also been elected to
the American Pediatric Society, the Society of Pediatric Research
and the Academic Pediatric Association. She has been a member of
the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases since 2009, and is an
Associate Editor of Red Book™ 2015. She has authored over 150 peer
reviewed publications focusing on strategies to reduce the
incidence of hospital acquired infection, judicious use of
antibiotics, prevention of antibiotic resistant infection and
vaccine implementation and education.
Red Book® has been selected as one of Doody’s Core Titles®
"The Red Book is the preeminent resource on pediatric infectious
disease. This book is a must for anyone seeing pediatric patients
in a clinical setting. It should be on the desks of everyone who
cares for children, from nurses and midlevel providers to
physicians and trainees. There is just no other comparable resource
available on pediatric infectious diseases." — Doody's 5* Book
Review, reviewed by Maria Alcocer Alkureishi, MD (University of
Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)
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