Meet the 2006 Red Book® Committee
The Red Book is prepared by the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases (COID). Here are some of the active and recent committee members who were instrumental in the publication of the 2006 Red Book.
Carol J. Baker, MD, FAAP (COID 1999–2005)
Dr Baker is professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. She also is the Texas Children's Hospital Foundation chair in pediatric infectious diseases and head of the Section of Infectious Diseases within the Department of Pediatrics. She is president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, and the AAP liaison to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Dr Baker has been elected to the Society for Pediatric Research, the American Pediatric Society, as a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and is a past president of that organization, the American Society of Clinical Investigation, and the American Association of Physicians. She has received numerous awards including the Distinguished Service Award from the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society and the Pediatric Golden Award for Teaching from Baylor for sustained excellence in teaching for more than 10 years. She is the author or coauthor of more than 250 original articles and 50 book chapters, and a pioneer in the study of human infections caused by group B streptococcus (GBS). She has been instrumental in developing public health recommendations to prevent perinatal infections of GBS through use of intrapartum penicillin for women identified as GBS carriers during pregnancy, and her current research is focused on developing candidate GBS vaccines for use in susceptible populations of all ages.
Robert S. Baltimore, MD, FAAP (COID 2001–Present)
Dr Baltimore was born in New York City and graduated from the University of Chicago with an AB in Biology in 1964. He went to medical school at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine, graduating in 1968. He did an internship and residency in pediatrics at the University of Chicago's Wyler Children's Hospital from 1968 to 1971. After completing his residency, he was in the US Army, stationed at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research from 1971 to 1974 where he did research in bacterial infections and clinical training in infectious diseases. From 1974 to 1976 he was a postdoctoral fellow and instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School's Channing Laboratory situated at the Boston City Hospital. In 1976 he accepted a position in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine where he is currently professor of pediatrics and epidemiology. While a faculty member at Yale, Dr Baltimore has received research grants from the Hood Foundation, The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. His research has centered around studies of group B streptococcus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, infections in the neonate, and nosocomial infections. He is currently the associate director of hospital epidemiology at Yale-New Haven Hospital and epidemiologist for Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital. He is also codirector of the Pediatric Tuberculosis Clinic and codirector of the Training Program in Pediatric Infectious Diseases.
Henry (Hank) Bernstein, DO, FAAP (COID 2005–Present)
Dr Bernstein is chief of General Pediatrics at Children's Hospital at Dartmouth in New Hampshire, director of the Residency Training Program, and professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School. Besides various administrative, teaching, and care responsibilities at Children's, he leads several national initiatives in medical education and clinical primary care research. Dr Bernstein's goal has always been to promote the health of children, their families, and the communities where they live. Extensive experience as a primary care pediatrician in a variety of settings places him in a most distinctive and rewarding position to share unique perspectives as a generalist. Cognizant of the need for the outcome of learning to go beyond recall of content, he dedicates significant time and effort on the development of new and innovative tools intended to facilitate learning that enhances clinical judgment and practice, and results in improved health of patients. In addition, his research focuses on issues important to the community-based practice of primary care including medical education, health promotion, technology, postpartum newborn discharge, preventive screening tests, and immunization development, education, and delivery. His clinical research studies have had significant impact on the practice of primary care pediatrics and national policy.
Joseph A. Bocchini, Jr, MD, FAAP (COID 2002–Present)
Dr Bocchini is professor of pediatrics and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) in Shreveport where he also serves as chief of the Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and medical director of the Children's Hospital. Dr Bocchini received his MD from St. Louis University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in pediatrics at the University of Connecticut and a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins University. He joined the faculty at LSUHSC in 1977. Dr Bocchini is a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and the American Pediatric Society.
Michael T. Brady, MD, FAAP (COID 2005–Present)
Dr Brady is professor and vice chair for clinical affairs at The Ohio State University and physician-in-chief of the Columbus Children's Hospital. He completed his pediatric residency at Columbus Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. He completed his pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at the Baylor College of Medicine. He has been on the faculty of The Ohio State University since 1983. He has been elected to the Society of Pediatric Research and American Pediatric Society, and is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Other AAP activities have included: Section on Infectious Diseases (SOID) Executive Committee (1995-1999); SOID Program Chair (1995-2005); PREP: ID Planning Group (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003) and Course Director (2001, 2003); Practical Pediatrics CME Course Planning Group (2005-Present); and Committee on Pediatric AIDS liaison from COID. He is currently a member of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Executive Council. His special interests are antiviral therapy, especially antiretroviral therapy of pediatric HIV infection, and health care-associated infections.
Penelope H. Dennehy, MD, FAAP (COID 2003–Present)
Dr Dennehy is professor of pediatrics at Brown Medical School and director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, RI. She earned a BA from Radcliffe College in 1970. She completed medical school at Tufts University School of Medicine, a pediatric residency at Brown, and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital in Boston. She then joined the faculty at Brown where she has been for the last 24 years. She is actively involved in teaching, research and clinical care. Her primary areas of research include the epidemiology and etiology of viral gastroenteritis and viral respiratory disease, rotavirus disease and prevention, and the testing of vaccines and immunobiologics for prevention of rotavirus and respiratory viral infections.
Robert W. Frenck, Jr, MD, FAAP (COID 2003–Present)
Dr Frenck received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at San Diego in 1977 followed by his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 1981. He trained at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland completing his pediatric residency in 1984. After 3 years as a general pediatrician at the US Naval Hospital, Japan, he entered pediatric infectious disease fellowship training at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston which he completed in 1990. Dr Frenck is board-certified in both pediatrics and infectious diseases. His research interests include therapeutic and vaccine clinical trials with special interest in enteric diseases. After completing a 25-year career in the Navy, Dr Frenck joined the UCLA Center for Vaccine Research in 2004 and is currently serving as director of the center and a professor of pediatrics at UCLA School of Medicine. Dr Frenck has been active in the American Academy of Pediatrics and currently serves on the Red Book Committee. He is an acknowledged authority in infectious diseases and has authored over 60 articles and book chapters on various aspects of this subject.
Sarah S. Long, MD, FAAP (COID 2002–Present)
Dr Long received her M.D. from Jefferson Medical College and completed pediatric residency and fellowship training in infectious diseases at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, PA, with one year as a National Institutes of Health research trainee. Dr Long is professor of pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine and chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. Dr Long has been chair of the first subboard of pediatric infectious diseases of the American Board of Pediatrics (the national certifying agency for pediatrics and its subspecialties), chair of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Pediatrics, president of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (the national organization of subspecialists), and the president of the medical staff at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. She is chief editor of the textbook, Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and an associate editor of The Journal of Pediatrics. Dr Long repeatedly has been given the housestaff teaching award at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, the all-university Great Teacher's Award, the Distinguished Service Award of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and has been named consistently as a Philadelphia Top Doctor since 1987. Her principal areas of investigation are vaccine preventable diseases and management of common infectious diseases in children. Dr Long has made more than 200 contributions to the medical literature and has performed 46 honorary lectureships and visiting professorships.
Julia A. McMillan, MD, FAAP (COID 2001–Present)
Dr McMillan is vice chair for pediatric education in the Department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the residency training program. She earned a BA from the University of North Carolina in 1969. She completed medical school, pediatric residency, and a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse and remained on the faculty there for 10 years. She then joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins as vice chair and residency program director in 1991. Dr McMillan's research has been in the area of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and respiratory viral infection. She is editor-in-chief of the 4th edition of the textbook Oski's Pediatrics: Principles and Practice and Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Pediatrics. She is also the medical editor of the Infectious Diseases Sub-Board Examination for the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP). Since 2001 she has been a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Infectious Disease. Dr McMillan has served as a member of the AAP Task Force on Terrorism, chair of the ABP Board of Directors, and representative of the ABP on the Federation of Pediatric Organizations and the Pediatric Education Steering Committee. She is a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, and the AAP.
H. Cody Meissner, MD, FAAP (COID 1999–2005)
Dr Meissner is professor of pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine and head of the pediatric infectious disease division at the Tufts-New England Medical Center. He graduated from Tufts Medical School in 1971 and was a resident at the Boston Floating Hospital for Children. After two years at the National Institutes of Health he completed his training in infectious disease at Boston Children's Hospital. His major clinical interest relates to prevention of viral infections with active and passive immunization.
Keith R. Powell, MD, FAAP (COID 2001–Present)
Dr Powell is currently vice president and Dr Noah Miller Chair of Pediatric Medicine at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron and professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. Before moving to Ohio in 1998, Dr Powell was chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and associate chair for clinical affairs at the University of Rochester in New York. As a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow in Washington, DC, from 1992 to 1993, Dr Powell played an active role in drafting and helping pass the Vaccines for Children Act of 1993. The main focus of Dr Powell's career has been the practice and teaching of pediatric infectious disease. He has also been involved in basic and clinical research and currently spends much of his time in administration.
Lorry G. Rubin, MD, FAAP (COID 2003–Present)
Dr. Rubin is chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Schneider Children’s Hospital of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in Queens, NY, and a professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY. He earned a BA in chemistry from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and attended medical school at Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL. He completed a residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at John Hopkins University School of Medicine. His laboratory-based and clinical research interests are in the area of pathogenesis, prevention, and diagnosis of invasive bacterial infections. Currently he has a R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop assays for serotype-specific detection of pneumococci. He is an author of more than 150 publications including more than 85 peer-reviewed original articles. He is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America where he has served on the Publications Committee, a past president of the Long Island Infectious Diseases Society, a member of the Executive Committee of the Nassau Pediatric Society, and a past member of the Society for Pediatric Research.
Thomas N. Saari, MD, FAAP (COID 1998–2004)
Dr Saari is a 1968 Case Western Reserve Medical School graduate who practiced general pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases in Madison, WI for 23 years. He joined the Pediatric Infectious Disease Division of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine in 1998 and was appointed professor (CHS) on the Department of Pediatrics teaching faculty. He served 15 years as chair of the Infectious Disease and Immunization Committee for the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and was appointed chair of the Wisconsin Council for Immunization Practices in 1999. Dr Saari served on the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases (COID) from 1998 to 2004 with special interest in the immunization of premature and low birthweight infants and hepatitis B prevention. He has been consultant to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine safety, the control of hepatitis in pediatric and correctional institution populations in the United States, and strategies to promote community-based immunization activities. He was chosen Wisconsin's Pediatrician of the Year in 1993 and was the recipient of the 1995 AAP Special Achievement Award for his contributions to AAP immunization policy development.
Larry Pickering, MD, FAAP, Red Book® Editor
Dr Pickering graduated from West Virginia University School of Medicine in 1970 and subsequently completed his pediatric residency and infectious diseases fellowship at St. Louis Children's Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine. He is currently senior advisor to the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and Executive Secretary of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. Dr Pickering is a past associate editor and current editor of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Red Book (for the 2000, 2003 and 2006 editions). He has been editor or coeditor of 10 books, including Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, an author on over 450 manuscripts, a member of the editorial board of many pediatric and infectious diseases journals and publications. He is a past president of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, past board member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, past member of the ICAAC program committee, current member of the Board of Directors and treasurer of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, and is active in a number of AAP committees and sections. He served on the NIH-NICHHD study section and the March of Dimes Research Advisory Committee. Dr Pickering's research activities have centered on immunization, diarrheal diseases, immunology of human milk, and infections in child care centers.
Edgar O. Ledbetter, MD, FAAP, Consultant
Dr Ledbetter graduated from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. He completed a rotating internship at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, TX, and pediatric residency training followed by a pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston and a research fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He later spent a sabbatical year studying medical ethics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Dr Ledbetter has served as a staff pediatrician at Wilford Hall US Air Force (USAF) Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base, TX, and while there developed and directed the Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship Training Program. He served as a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio, TX, and as a senior medical services consultant in pediatrics to the USAF surgeon general. He was professor and vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in Lubbock, and served as chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Texas Tech for 5 years. He served as director of the Department of Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for 11 years. He currently is a technical reviewer for the National Network for Immunization Information (NNii), medical editor of the Red Book Online Visual Library, and AAP Board of Directors-designated reviewer for the 2003 and 2006 Red Book. Dr Ledbetter is a diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP), a Fellow of the AAP, and a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, and the American Medical Association. He served as an official examiner for the ABP for 27 years, and was a member and chair of the Medical Ethics Sub-Committee of the ABP. He has also served as a member of the board of directors of Child Health Is A Legal Duty (CHILD, Inc.). He has provided numerous presentations and publications on infectious diseases of children, medical ethics, and child abuse prevention/intervention. Though Dr Ledbetter is "semi-retired" in San Antonio, he continues to serve as a consultant to the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases.
