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Sharon Nachman, MDChief of Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases; Director of Office of Clinical
Trials; ProfessorPediatricsRenaissance School of Medicine
Biography
Dr. Sharon Nachman is an international leader in the area of pediatric infectious disease and the treatment of children with AIDS, flu and measles. She has been the principal investigator of more than 30 clinical trials of promising medicine for patients treated at Stony Brook University Hospital and conducted international trials in the areas of new vaccines, Lyme disease, and AIDS. She also directs the Maternal Child HIV/AIDS Program.
Education
- Postdoctoral fellowship, Rockefeller University Hospital
- Fellowship, New York Medical College
- Residency, Long Island Jewish Medical Center
- MD, Stony Brook University
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