Prof. Larry Pickering
Larry K. Pickering, MD, is senior advisor to the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Executive Secretary of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. He is boardcertified in pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases by the American Board of Pediatrics. He received his medical degree from the West Virginia University School of Medicine, and subsequently completed his pediatric residency and infectious diseases fellowship at St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.
Dr Pickering is past president of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society of North America and a past member of the Infectious Diseases Subboard of the American Board of Pediatrics. He is a member of the Board of Directors and treasurer of the National Foundation of Infectious Diseases and a member of the scientific program committee of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Dr. Pickering is a past member of the Board of Directors of IDSA, the Program Committee of Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), the Maternal and Child Health Subcommittee Study Section of the NIH and the Executive Committee and chair of the Research Committee of the Section on Breastfeeding of the AAP and Research Advisory Committee A of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. He is a member of the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation, the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society.
Dr. Pickering's research interests include immunizations, infectious diarrhea, child-care related illnesses, and protective factors in human milk. He is past associate editor and the current editor of the Red Book® of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), coeditor of the third edition of the book Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and serves on several editorial boards of scientific journals. Dr Pickering is a recipient of the Edward J. van Liere Research Award and the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the West Virginia University School of Medicine and the Founder's Award of the Southern Society for Pediatric Research, and recipient of the 2007 Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society's Distinguished Physician Award. He was named Outstanding Clinical Faculty Member by the graduating class at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and Outstanding Faculty Member for Research by the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. He is chair of the Immunization Programs for Infants, Children, Adolescents and Adults: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the IDSA, and Chair of the infectious diseases section of the third edition of Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care Programs.
