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Dr. Myers is Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston Texas where he also serves as the Director for Public Health Policy and Education of the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development. Prior to joining the faculty at UTMB, Dr. Myers was the Director of the National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO) in the Department of Health and Human Services.

 

Dr. Myers is also President and Board Chair of a nonprofit corporation, Immunizations for Public Health (I4PH), dedicated to providing evidence-based information about vaccines to those who need it through its National Network for Immunization Information (NNii). He serves as the Director and Editor for NNii and manages its Web site www.immunizationinfo.org .

 

Dr. Myers is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

 

After graduating from Princeton University, Dr. Myers obtained his MD and pediatric training at Johns Hopkins University and Hospital.  He received his virology and infectious diseases training at the Beth Israel and Children's Hospitals in Boston and in the Laboratory of Virology and Rickettsiology at the NIH. He was Director of Pediatric Infectious Diseases first at the University of Iowa and then at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati. From 1993 to 1999, he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University in Chicago.

 

Dr. Myers has authored or co-authored more than 150 articles, mostly focused on the prevention of infections in children. He recently published a book “Do Vaccines Cause That?! A Guide for Evaluating Vaccine Safety Concerns” for parents and health professionals who counsel parents.