David W. Kimberlin MD

Dr. Kimberlin holds the Sergio Stagno Endowed Chair in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he is Co-Director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Dr. Kimberlin is Principal Investigator (PI) of the Collaborative Antiviral Study Group (CASG), and is the PI on the CASG’s four newly awarded contracts of $19.2M from NIH/NIAID/DMID to evaluate novel therapeutic and diagnostic opportunities for management of neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV) disease and congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection.

These studies will involve approximately 20 academic medical centers in the Unites States and Great Britain, and will build upon previous CASG studies conducted by Dr. Kimberlin that have defined the standard of care for the treatment of neonatal HSV and congenital CMV infections. Other CASG investigations led by Dr. Kimberlin defined the worldwide management of infants with influenza disease during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, and have investigated experimental therapies for neonatal enteroviral disease and laryngeal papillomatosis.

Dr. Kimberlin is Editor of the 2015 AAP Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (Red Book), and was Associate Editor for the 2009 and 2012 editions. He served as a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Infectious Diseases (COID) from 2005-2011. Dr. Kimberlin also is the AAP Red Book liaison to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), having served in this capacity for the past seven years. During this time, he has served as the COID liaison to six different ACIP Working Groups.

Dr. Kimberlin currently is President of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS), which is the world's largest organization of professionals dedicated to the treatment, control, and eradication of infectious diseases affecting children. Dr. Kimberlin also serves as the Director of Subspecialty Medical Education for the UAB Department of Pediatrics. He has received numerous education awards, including the Ralph E. Tiller, M.D., Distinguished Faculty Award, recognizing the faculty member that the Senior Pediatric Resident class believes has contributed the most to their overall education and training experience (2003); the Argus Award nominee by second year medical students (Class of 2011) recognizing the Best Lecturer for the Reproductive Module (2009); the Argus Award nominee by third year medical students recognizing the Best Pediatrics Attending (2006, 2008, 2009); and selection by UAB Gold Humanism Honor Society third and fourth year medical students as faculty member who models the qualities of integrity, excellence, compassion, altruism, respect, and empathy in the care of patients (2011, 2012).