**Food and Drug Administration**

**Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research**

**Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee**

# Executive Secretary

Christine Walsh, R.N.

Center for Biologics Evaluation & Research

Food and Drug Administration

1401 Rockville Pike (HFM-71)

Rockville, Maryland 20852

301-827-0314

fax 301-827-0294

walshc@cber.fda.gov

# Chair

Gary D. Overturf, M.D.

Expertise: Pediatrics

Term: 02/23/02 -- 01/31/06

Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology

University of New Mexico Medical Center

Ambulatory Care Center, 3^rd^ Floor

2211 Lomas Avenue, N.E.

Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131

505-272-5551

fax 505-272-6845

goverturf@salud.unm.edu

Michael D. Decker, M.D.\*\*

Expertise: Infectious Diseases

Term: 06/20/01 -- 01/31/05

Vice President

Scientific and Medical Affairs

Aventis Pasteur

Discovery Drive

Swiftwater, Pennsylvania 18370

570-839-5018

fax 570-839-2038

michael.decker@aventis.com

# Committee Management Specialist

Denise Royster

Center for Biologics Evaluation &

Research

Food and Drug Administration

1401 Rockville Pike (HFM-71)

Rockville, Maryland 20852

301-827-0314

fax 301-827-0294

royster@cber.fda.gov

Monica M. Farley, M.D.

Expertise: Bacterial Infectious Diseases

Term: 02/01/04 -- 01/31/08

Professor of Medicine

Department of Medicine

Emory University School of Medicine

VA Medical Center

Research -- Infectious Diseases (151)

1670 Clairmont Road

Atlanta, Georgia 30033

404-321-6111

fax 404-329-2210

mfarley@emory.edu

Ruth A. Karron, M.D.

Expertise: Pediatrics & Infectious Dis.

Term: 02/01/03 -- 01/31/07

Associate Professor

Division of International Health

Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health

624 N Broadway

Hampton House Rm 117

Baltimore, Maryland 21205

410-955-1622

fax 410-955-2791

rkarron@jhsph.edu

Philip S. LaRussa, M.D.

Expertise: Pediatrics/Virology

Term: 02/01/04 -- 01/31/08

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

Columbia University, PH-4 West -- 462

622 West 168^th^ Street

New York, New York 10032

212-305-0898

fax 212-342-5218

<psL1@columbia.edu>

David Markovitz, M.D.

Expertise: Infectious Diseases

Term: 02/22/02 -- 01/31/06

Professor

Division of Infectious Diseases

Department of Internal Medicine

University of Michigan Medical Center

1150 W Medical Center Drive, Rm 5220

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

734-936-3844

fax 734-764-0101

<Dmarkov@umich.edu>

Cindy Lyn Province, R.N., M.S.N.\*

Expertise: Consumer Representative

Term: 05/14/03 -- 01/31/05

Associate Director

Bioethics Center of St. Louis

P.O. Box 6134

Chesterfield, Missouri 63006

636-798-2168

fax 636-798-2168

<cindypro@mo.net>

Richard Whitley, M.D.

Expertise: Pediatrics & Infectious Dis.

Term: 09/10/01 -- 01/31/05

Professor

Pediatrics, Microbiology and Medicine

Department of Pediatrics and Microbiology

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Suite 616, Children's Hospital

1600 7^th^ Avenue South

Birmingham, Alabama 35233

205-934-5316

fax 205-934-8559

<rwhitley@peds.uab.edu>

Peter Palese, Ph.D.

Expertise: Molecular Biology

Term: 06/21/01 -- 01/31/05

Chairman and Professor

Department of Microbiology

Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

New York University

One Gustave L. Levy Place

New York, New York 10029

212-241-7318

fax 212-722-3634

<peter.palese@mssm.edu>

Steven Self, Ph.D.

Expertise: Biostatistics

Term: 02/01/04 -- 01/31/08

Professor, Department of Biostatistics

University of Washington

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Ctr.

1100 Fairview Avenue, S., MS MW 500

P.O. Box 19024

Seattle, Washington 98109

206-667-4944

fax 206-667-4812

<sgs@scharp.org>

Walter Royal, III, M.D.

Expertise: Infectious Dis/Neurology

Term: 02/01/03 -- 01/31/07

Associate Professor of Medicine

Morehouse School of Medicine

720 Westview Drive, S.W.

Atlanta, Georgia 30310

404-756-5792

fax 404-752-1041

<wroyal@msm.edu>

Bonnie M. Word, M.D.

Expertise: Pediatric Infectious Dis.

Term: 02/01/04 -- 01/31/08

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Baylor College of Medicine

Texas Children's Hospital

Clinical Care Center

6621 Fannin Street, Suite 1740.01

Houston, Texas 77030

832-822-1748

fax 832-825-3747

[bword@bcm.tmc.edu](mailto:bword@bcm.tcm.edu)

\* Consumer Representative

\*\* Industry Representative