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From left: Herb Pardes, president and CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Lawrence Stanberry, and Lee Goldman.

Infectious Disease Expert Named Pediatrics Chair
Lawrence Stanberry, M.D., Ph.D., currently John Sealy Distinguished Professor and chair of pediatrics and director of the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, will become the chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at P&S and pediatrician-in-chief of the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital in February.
Dr. Stanberry is known for his work on neonatal herpes, the management of genital herpes and other sexually transmitted infections, and the use of herpes vaccines. He was one of the lead researchers on the trials that produced the first scientific evidence that a vaccine could protect humans against genital herpes. Dr. Stanberry received his M.D., and Ph.D. in pharmacology, from the University of Illinois in Chicago. Dr. Stanberry succeeds John Driscoll, M.D., who has been a part of Columbia pediatrics for 40 years and was chairman and director of pediatrics for 15 years until June 2007. Richard Polin, M.D., professor of pediatrics and director of the division of perinatal medicine, has been interim chairman since June.