Juan Carlos Salazar MD MPH (He/Him)

Summary

• Juan Carlos Salazar, MD, MPH, is Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and System Pediatrician-in-chief at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital.
  
  Prior to joining Vanderbilt, Dr. Salazar was Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Physician in Chief at Connecticut Children's. Dr. Salazar also previously led the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology at Connecticut Children’s. He has been nationally and internationally recognized for both his outstanding clinical care and his innovative research work. Dr. Salazar has received several National Institutes of Health grants to study the human innate immune response to Borrelia burgdorferi and Treponema pallidum, the causative agents of Lyme disease and syphilis respectively. Most recently his team received funding from the National Institutes Child Health and Development Institute (NICHD) to study the pathogenesis of COVID-19 and the multi-inflammatory syndrome associated to COVID-19 in children and young adults. He has published over 140 peer reviewed articles and book chapters and has served in multiple scientific review panels at the NIH. He served as a standing member of the HIBP study section at NIAID (2022-25).
  
  Prior to his recruitment to Vanderbilt, Dr. Salazar directed the Pediatric and Youth HIV program at Connecticut Children's. His team promoted and facilitated regional STD and HIV-prevention programs for at-risk high school youth. Dr. Salazar was the recipient of three different Ryan White Care Act federal funds to coordinate and provide state of CT HIV treatment and prevention services for women, infants, children and youth. He has conducted several NIH and pharmaceutical industry sponsored pediatric and adolescent HIV clinical trials and long-term follow-up studies.
  
  He received his medical degree from the Universidad Javeriana, in Bogota, Colombia, and his MPH from the University of Minnesota.