ACIP Membership Roster
Oliver Brooks, MD, FAAP, Chief Medical Officer, Watts HealthCare Corporation, Los Angeles, CA. Term: 7/26/2021 – 6/30/2025
Dr. Brooks is Chief Medical Officer at Watts Healthcare Corporation in Los Angeles, California. He is a past president of the National Medical Association (NMA), and past president of the California Immunization Coalition. He was co-chair of the California COVID-19 Vaccine Work Group, which determined allocation of the COVID-19 vaccine in the state, and had worked for more than 15 years in various leadership roles focusing on disparities in vaccine coverage rates.
Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Term: 12/23/2020 – 6/30/2024
Dr. Chen is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Director of the University of Maryland Baltimore Travel Medicine Practice. He has a specific research interest in developing vaccines against pathogens which afflict low- and middle-income countries and is a co-investigator of the NIAID-funded Vaccine Treatment and Evaluation Unit and NIAID-funded Collaborative Influenza Vaccine Innovation Centers.
Sybil Cineas, MD, FAAP, FACP, Associate Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Medical Science (Clinical), The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Associate Program Director, Brown Combined Residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Providence, RI. Term: 7/28/2021 – 6/30/2025
Dr. Cineas is dual board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and serves as the Associate Program Director for the Brown Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program. In addition to servings as a primary care provider for patients of all ages, she is highly involved in the training of residents and medical students. She has 20+ years of experience teaching about and promoting vaccination in the clinical setting.
Senior Investigator, Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Aurora, Colorado. Term: 1/4/2021 – 6/30/2024
Dr. Daley is a practicing pediatrician with extensive research experience in the areas of vaccine safety, parental vaccine hesitancy, and immunization services delivery. Dr. Daley is an investigator in the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), leading or contributing to studies of the safety of newly licensed vaccines, the safety of vaccines during pregnancy, and the safety of the immunization schedule. Dr. Daley is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Vice President for Medical Affairs, Dean, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa . Term: 3/4/2024 – 6/30/2027
Dr. Jamieson is the Vice President for Medical Affairs, Dean of the Carver College of Medicine, and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Iowa. Her scientific work has focused on emerging infections and vaccines in pregnancy. She retired from the U.S. Public Health Service in 2017 after 20 years of service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Clinical Director, Transplant and Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases, Infectious Diseases Division, Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Term: 12/23/2020 – 6/30/2024
Dr. Kotton is an infectious disease clinician with special expertise in the care of complex patients undergoing solid organ transplantation and with cancer. She is a national expert in vaccination and zoonotic infectious diseases in the immunocompromised host. Dr. Kotton’s clinical publications include major reviews on zoonotic infections, travel vaccines, and viral infections after transplantation.
Jamie Loehr, MD, FAAFP, Owner, Cayuga Family Medicine, Ithaca, NY. Term: 7/26/2021 – 6/30/2025
Dr. Loehr has practiced as a family physician in Rochester and Ithaca, NY, for over 30 years, counseling patients every day on the benefits of vaccines. He served as the AAFP liaison to the ACIP for four years and has been a member of the ACIP influenza working group for over 10 years.
Professor of Pediatrics, Drexel University College of Medicine and Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Term: 12/24/2020 – 6/30/2024
Dr. Long is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases and has over four decades of contributions to the field of pediatric infectious disease. She has served on numerous committees including as a standing member on the Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) of the FDA and as a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Infectious Diseases.
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Department of Pediatrics, Palo Alto, CA
Dr. Maldonado is a pediatric infectious diseases clinician, researcher and epidemiologist. She has led several NIH, CDC, Gates Foundation and WHO funded pediatric vaccine effectiveness studies in the US, India, Mexico and Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as studies of the prevention and treatment of perinatal HIV infection. She has served on several national and international committees in the area of pediatrics, vaccines and infectious diseases, including as former chair of the Committee on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Maldonado has also devoted substantial effort to teaching, training, and mentoring activities in Global Child Health, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology in the national and international setting.
Chief, Immunization Branch, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA.
Dr. Schechter is Chief of the California Department of Public Health Immunization Branch, where he was worked for over 20 years. He has served on the National Vaccine Advisory Committee and on ACIP workgroups reviewing COVID-19, influenza, and other vaccines.
Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine,New Haven, Connecticut. Term: 3/4/2024 – 6/30/2027
Dr. Shaw is Professor of Medicine in the Section of Infectious Diseases at the Yale School of Medicine. He is an infectious diseases physician who is also an expert on changes in immune system function in older adults. His laboratory research seeks to understanding mechanisms underlying age-related chronic inflammation, circadian regulation of the immune response, and altered responses to vaccination.
Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Term: 10/29/2018 – 6/30/2023
As a dual appointee in Medicine and Health Policy, Dr. Talbot has played a pivotal role in the evaluation of viral respiratory diseases in adults and the evaluation of new and existing vaccines in older adults so as to improve immunization policy and vaccine development. Her goal is to continue to evaluate the use and effectiveness of vaccines, with a focus on prevention of infection and morbidity in adults. Dr. Talbot began her career by investigating the presentation of influenza in hospitalized adults. Her recent work has contributed to our understanding of the epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus. Dr. Talbot currently co-leads the Tennessee Emerging Infections Program at Vanderbilt, which works to better understand viral respiratory disease epidemiology and inform vaccine policy.