Dr. Ron Dagan
Professor
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit
Soroka Medical Center
Dr. Ron Dagan is Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Director of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit at the Soroka University Medical Center in Beer-Sheva, Israel. He is currently President of the World Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (WSPID), a fellow at the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and he will chair the Seventh International Symposium for Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD-7) which will take place in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2010.
Dr. Dagan’s work focuses on new conjugate vaccines, vaccine-preventable diseases, vaccination against antibiotic-resistant pneumococci, otitis media, bacteriologic response to antibiotics and enteric and invasive infections in young children. Dr. Dagan has authored or co-authored hundreds of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these subjects. He serves as an international editor for the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vaccine, Infection, Human Vaccines and the Israel Journal of Pediatrics. He served as president of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID) from 2004 to 2006.
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