Scientific Advisory Board
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Lars A. Hanson M.D., Ph.D.Professor Hanson obtained his M.D. at the School of Medicine at the University of Göteborg, Sweden and defended his thesis for a doctoral degree in medical science (Ph.D.) in 1961. Dr. Hanson took graduate training at the Department of Bacteriology, University of Göteborg (Professor Ö. Ouchterlony), Service de Chimie Microbienne at the Pasteur Institute in Paris (Professor P. Grabar), and the Department of Protein Metabolism at the Rockefeller University, New York, USA (Professor H.G. Kunkel). Prof. Hanson joined the faculty at the University of Göteborg in 1969. From 1977 he served as Specialist in Clinical Immunology and Physician-in-Chief for Clinical Immunology for the hospitals of the City of Göteborg. In 1978 he was appointed Professor and Chairman of Clinical Immunology and Head of the Department of Clinical Immunology at the University of Göteborg. Dr. Hanson has been and continues to be Scientific Advisor in Clinical Immunology to the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare. He is also a Fellow of the International Society of Human Milk and Lactation. Prof. Hanson has published some 700 scientific papers in bacteriology, pediatrics and immunology; of these more than 430 are original reports. He has also been Editor or contributor/author of 21 books. |
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Cheston M. Berlin M.D.Professor Berlin received his M.D. degree at the Harvard University School of Medicine in 1962. His post-graduate training at Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston was interrupted by a stint as Senior Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Public Health Service, Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Disease National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland. Prof. Berlin began his academic medical career as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics University of Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama in 1967. He has served in various capacities at George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington D.C. until 1971.He landed at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania where he has been ever since. In 1986 he attained his current position of University Professor of Pediatrics. Prof. Berlin is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and has served as Chair of several of its subcommittees. He also served on the United States Pharmacopeia and chaired its Immunizing Agents Expert Committee, Council of Experts. Prof. Berlin is also a Fellow of the International Society for Research on Human Milk and Lactation. Prof. Berlin has published over 100 original articles and 12 statements from the Committee on Drugs of the American Academy of Pediatrics while he was chair. |
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Anders Fasth M.D., Ph.D.Professor Fasth obtained his M.D. at the School of Medicine at the University of Göteborg, Sweden in 1971 and defended his thesis for a doctoral degree in medical science, in 1980 (Ph.D.). Prof. Fasth took his postgraduate training at the University of Göteborg, the University of Lund, Sweden, the Institute of Child Health, University of London, England, and at UCLA. Prof. Fasth joined the faculty at the University of Göteborg, in 1982 and has remained there in various capacities ever since. Currently, he is a full Professor of Immunology and head of the Pediatric Immunology and Stem Cell Transplantation Team. He has also been involved with heath care issues in Costa Rica, where he has served as advisor to the Minister of Health. He continues to serve as a Consultant Immunologist at the National Children’s Hospital in San Jose, California. Prof. Fasth is Chair of the Expert Working Group for Rare Disorders of the Swedish National Health and Welfare board and of the Educational Working Party of the European Society for Immunology, in addition to other committee and organizational memberships. Prof. Fasth has published over 150 publications in various areas within immunology. |
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Stephen A. Zinner M.D.Professor Zinner received his M.D. degree from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1965. He took his post-graduate training at University of Chicago Medical School and at Harvard, working at the Channing Laboratory. Prof. Zinner began his academic career at Harvard Medical school in 1971. In 1972 he accepted an appointment on the faculty at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. With but a few gaps, Prof. Zinner has spent the last thirty-odd years affiliated with one or both of these institutions, and as Chief of Infectious Diseases at Brown. He is Chair of the Department of Medicine at Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Masachusetts and Charles S. Davidson Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He has been a visiting Professor at, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Institute Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium and Wilhelm Pieck University, Rostock, DDR as well as chairing innumerable international conferences or sessions in the area of infectious diseases. He has also served as a site visitor and Scientific Review Committee member of various units of the National Institutes of Health. Prof. Zinner has authored almost 130 original articles and 24 proceedings of international meetings. In addition to numerous book chapters he has authored or edited ten books. |