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Ann M. Arvin, MD
Lucile Salter Packard Professor
of Pediatrics
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Dean of Research
Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Stanford University Building 1
300 Pasteur Drive, Room G311
Stanford, CA 94305-5208
Phone: 650 498-6227 or 650 723-9034
Fax: 650/725-8040
Email: AArvin@stanford.edu
Ann M. Arvin is the Lucile
Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology &
Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Chief of
Infectious Diseases at the Packard Children’s Hospital. She was
appointed Associate Dean of Research at Stanford University in 2001.
Dr. Arvin’s basic research program focuses on varicella-zoster
virus, examining viral gene functions, molecular mechanisms of
pathogenesis, and antiviral immunity, with NIAID support since 1981.
Dr. Arvin’s NIH-funded clinical research programs concern herpes
viral infections in pregnancy and the newborn, developmental factors
that shape the host response of infants and young children to viral
pathogens, and the induction of cell-mediated immunity by vaccines
against herpes viruses, measles and influenza. She is principal
investigator of the NIAID Center for Human Immunology and Biodefense
at Stanford. Dr. Arvin has served on numerous NIH panels, the FDA
Vaccines and Related Biologics Advisory Committee, March of Dimes
and HHMI committees, and the Council of the American Society for
Virology. She was a member of the IOM Committee on the Assessment of
Future Scientific Needs for Variola Virus, 1999, and the NIAID
Expert Panel on Immunity and Biodefense Research, 2002, and now
serves on the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, DHHS, and chairs
the WHO Steering Committee on Measles Vaccine Research. She is an
associate editor, Journal of Infectious Diseases and is on the
editorial board of the Journal of Virology and other journals. Dr.
Arvin has received the E. Mead Johnson Award of Society for
Pediatric Research and the John Enders Award of Infectious Diseases
Society of America, and is an elected member of the American
Pediatric Society and the Association of American Physicians. She
was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
in 2003. Dr. Arvin earned her undergraduate degree from Brown
University, an M.A., Philosophy, from Brandeis University, and her
M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. |
