Stanford University
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Presenter: Charles Prober, MD
Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology & Immunology
Stanford University
Charles Prober, MD, is senior associate dean for medical education and professor of pediatrics, microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He also is co-director of the Stanford Center for Clinical and Translational Education and Research.
An expert in pediatric infectious diseases, he has had an academic career focused on the epidemiology, pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment of infections in children. Much of his research has focused on viral infections, especially those caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV).
He has conducted a number of seminal studies concerned with the epidemiology of HSV-2 infections in pregnant women and their partners and in neonates as well as investigations of the immunologic response to HSV infections. Antiviral therapy is another area of specific expertise.
Dr. Prober has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and is editor of Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, one of the major textbooks in the field of pediatric infectious diseases. Dr. Prober has been involved in medical education throughout his career. He has directed a number of undergraduate and graduate student courses in the classroom and at the bedside, served as associate chair for education for the Department of Pediatrics, and lectured locally, nationally, and internationally on infectious diseases and medical education. As senior associate dean, he oversees undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate medical education at Stanford.