James D Cherry,
University of California, USA
Biography
James D. Cherry MD, MSC has been a pediatric infectious diseases specialist for 53 years. He is a Distinguished Research Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Cherry has published 304 research papers, 108 editorials/commentaries and 282 book chapters. He has given 238 presentations at national and international conferences. The majority of these papers and talks have related to vaccines and vaccine preventable diseases. Professor Cherry is the senior editor of Feigin and Cherry’s ”Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases” which is now in its 7th edition.he was Chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases for 27 years. He has received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Physician Award from the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society in 2003 and the UCLA Medical Alumni Associations’ Medical Science award in 2005.
Abstract
Abstract : The Resurgence of Pertussis: Facts, Fiction, Myths, and Misconceptions