American pediatrician
Ann Arvin
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Ann M. Arvin
(born 1945) is an American pediatrician and microbiologist. She is the Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology Emerita at
Stanford University
. Arvin is a specialist of the
Varicella zoster virus
(VZV) and a prominent national figure in health. Arvin is currently the chief of the infectious diseases division of pediatrics at the
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
,
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as well as the former Stanford's Vice Provost and Dean of Research.
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Education
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Ann Arvin received her undergraduate degree in
Philosophy
from
Brown University
in 1966.
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She earned her
M.A.
in Philosophy from
Brandeis University
.
[5]
Arvin graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania
's medical school in 1972,
[2]
completed her pediatric
residency
at
UCSF
in 1975 and her
postdoctoral
fellowship at
Stanford University
in 1978.
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Positions
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Ann Arvin has contributed to multiple national committees and boards. Arvin was elected to the
Institute of Medicine
(IOM), part of the
National Academy of Sciences
in 2003.
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[2]
She was one of the committee members for the 1999 Institute of Medicine Committee on the Assessment of Future Scientific Needs for Live
Variola
Virus
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and the chair of the 2009 IOM.
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She also served on the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, the
NIH
Collaborative Antiviral Study Group, the
World Health Organization
Committee on Research Related to Measles and Measles Vaccine, and the Council of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
.
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Arvin is also a member of the Council of the
American Society of Virology
, the Thrasher Foundation Advisory Board, National Vaccine Advisory Committee, which advises the Secretary of the
Department of Health and Human Services
.
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Research
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Ann Arvin's research surrounds infectious diseases like
Varicella Zoster
virus (VZV), "focusing on the functional roles of particular viral gene products in
pathogenesis
and
virus-cell interactions
in
differentiated human cells
in humans and in
SCID mouse
models of VZV cell tropisms
in vivo
."
[10]
Her research also surrounds
T-cell
response and immunity in children and the
immunocompromised
.
[11]
She was the editor of several books in
pediatrics
and
virology
field, such as
Nelson Textbook Of Pediatrics: Multi User", "Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology: Varicella-zoster Virus", "Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics", "Varicella-zoster Virus: Virology and clinical management", "Human Herpesviruses: Biology, Therapy, and Immunoprophylaxis", "Immunity to and Prevention of Herpes Zoster", and "Live Variola Virus: Considerations for Continuing Research".
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Arvin has received several awards and honors for her research, such as the
E. Mead Johnson Award
for Research in Pediatrics (1992),
[12]
the
John F. Enders
Distinguished Lecture in
Medical Virology
(2002),
[13]
the
Distinguished Graduate Award for 2010 from the
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
,
[14]
and
Stanford University School of Medicine
's Dean's Medal (2016).
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