HealthPartners Medical Group title: Pediatrician, chair of the Immunization Expert Panel and medical advisor for the Immunization Registry
Other offices: Chair of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement Immunization Work Group, chair of America's Health Insurance Plans' Vaccination and Immunization Working Group, and member of the Minnesota Immunization Practices Advisory Committee.
Joined HPRF: 1990
Education: MD and pediatric residency, University of Iowa, Iowa City; MPH, maternal and child health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Research highlights: Longitudinal study of vaccination and vaccine safety called the Vaccine Safety Datalink with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, America's Health Plans, and seven other HMOs; the epidemiology of lead poisoning in children; and the use of large linked medical databases for infectious disease surveillance.
Research interests/expertise: Immunization practices, vaccine safety and effectiveness, disease surveillance using large linked databases, lead poisoning in children.
Current projects: Vaccine Safety Datalink (several studies of the safety of H1N1 influenza vaccine), surveillance for infections after allograft, prevalence of autism in Somali and other immigrant children, survey of accuracy of self-report of vaccine receipt.
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