CDC Acute Flaccid Myelitis Task Force Members
Ruth Lynfield, MD (Task Force Co-Chair)
State Epidemiologist and Medical Director
Minnesota Department of Health
Tina Tan, MD (Task Force Co-Chair)
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Division of Infectious Diseases
Emily Erbelding, MD, MPH (DDID BSC Ex Officio)
National Institutes of Health
Director, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Leslie Benson, MD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Department of Neurology
Benjamin Greenberg, MD, MHS
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics
Bryan Grenfell, PhD
Princeton University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Tory Johnson, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Department of Neurology
Bonnie Maldonado, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
Kevin Messacar, MD
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
John Modlin, MD
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Deputy Director for Polio Research and Policy
Avi Nath, MD
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Carlos Pardo-Villamizar, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Department of Neurology
Director, Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center
Cristina Sadowsky, MD
Kennedy Krieger Institute
International Center for Spinal Cord Injury
Matthew Schniederjan, MD
Emory University School of Medicine
Department of Pathology
Jill Taylor, PhD
Director, Wadsworth Center
New York State Department of Health
Ken Tyler, MD
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Chair, Department of Neurology
Arun Venkatesan, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Division of Neuroimmunology and Neuroinfectious Diseases