Dr. Peter Hotez is a medical and molecular parasitologist and pediatrician, with a specialty interest in developing vaccines for tropical infectious diseases. In addition to serving as Sabin Vaccine Institute president, he is the Walter G. Ross Professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine, and principal scientist and founding director of the Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative (HHVI) at Sabin. Dr. Hotez has written approximately 220 papers, op-ed pieces, and book chapters, including articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Science, PLoS Medicine, and all of the major parasitology and tropical medicine journals, as well as the Washington Post and Foreign Policy. He is a co-author of Parasitic Diseases, 5th Edition, and a co-editor of Krugman?s Infectious Diseases of Children, 11th Edition, and is the founding editor-in-chief of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Dr. Hotez is the recipient of awards from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (Bailey K. Ashford Medal), the American Society of Parasitologists (Henry Baldwin Ward Medal), the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (Leverhulme Medal) and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (Young Investigator Award). He serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the March of Dimes, and in 2006 was designated as an ambassador of the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research for Research!America. Dr. Hotez obtained his B.A. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University, and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the joint medical scientist training program of Weil Cornell University Medical College and the Rockefeller University. His doctoral dissertation was on the molecular parasitology of hookworm. Following pediatric residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Hotez was a Pfizer Postdoctoral Fellow in infectious diseases at Yale, and was subsequently appointed to the faculty with a joint appointment in Pediatrics and Epidemiology & Public Health.

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