Food and Drug Administration
Center for Biologics and Evaluation
Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee
Chair Acting Executive Secretary
Gary D. Overturf, M.D. William Freas, Ph.D.
Expertise: Pediatrics Center for Biologics Evaluation & Research
Term: 02/23/02 – 01/31/06 Food and Drug Administration
Professor of Medicine 1401 Rockville Pike (HFM-71)
Division of Infectious Diseases Rockville, Maryland 20852
University of New Mexico School of 301-827-0314
Medicine fax 301-827-0294
Ambulatory Care Center, 3rd Floor freas@cber.fda.gov
2211 Lomas Avenue, N.E.
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
Michael D. Decker, M.D.** Monica M. Farley, M.D.
Expertise: Infectious Diseases Expertise: Bacterial Infectious Diseases
Term: 06/20/01 – 01/31/05 Term: 02/01/04 – 01/31/08
Vice President Professor of Medicine
Scientific and Medical Affairs Department of Medicine
Aventis Pasteur Emory University School of Medicine
Discovery Drive VA Medical Center
Swiftwater, Pennsylvania 18370 Research – Infectious Diseases (151)
1670 Clairmont Road
Ruth A. Karron, M.D. Atlanta, Georgia 30033
Expertise: Pediatrics & Infectious Dis.
Term: 02/01/03 – 01/31/07 Philip S. LaRussa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Expertise: Pediatrics/Virology
Division of International Health Term: 02/01/04 – 01/31/08
Johns Hopkins University School of Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Hygiene and Public Health Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
624 N Broadway/Hampton House Rm 117 Columbia-Presbyterian Hosp PH4, W4-462
Baltimore, Maryland 21205 622 West 168th Street
New York, New York 10032
David Markovitz, M.D. Peter Palese, Ph.D.
Expertise: Infectious Diseases Expertise: Molecular Biology
Term: 02/22/02 – 01/31/06 Term: 06/21/01 – 01/31/05
Professor Chairman and Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases Department of Microbiology
Department of Internal Medicine Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
University of Michigan Medical Center New York University
1150 West Medical Center Drive, Rm 5220 One Gustave L. Levy Place
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 New York, New York 10029
Cindy Lyn Province, R.N., M.S.N. * Walter Royal, III, M.D.
Expertise: Consumer Representative Expertise: Infectious Diseases/Neurology
Term: 05/14/03 – 01/31/05 Term: 02/01/03 – 01/31/07
Associate Director Associate Professor of Medicine
Bioethics Center of St. Louis Morehouse School of Medicine
P.O. Box 6134 720 Westview Drive, S.W.
Chesterfield, Missouri 63006 Atlanta, Georgia 30310
Richard Whitley, M.D. Bonnie M. Word, M.D.
Expertise: Pediatrics & Infectious Dis. Expertise: Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Term: 09/10/01 – 01/31/05 Term: 02/01/04 – 01/31/08
Professor Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics, Microbiology and Medicine Baylor College of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics and Microbiology Texas Children’s Hospital
University of Alabama at Birmingham Clinical Care Center
Suite 616, Children’s Hospital 6621 Fannin Street, Suite 1740.01
1600 7th Avenue South Houston, Texas 77030
Birmingham, Alabama 35233
*Consumer Representative
**Industry Representative