Pearay L. Ogra MD

Dr. Ogra served as the chief of Pediatric infectious diseases and Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York until 1990, when he was appointed as the John Sealy Distinguished Chair Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Pediatrician-in-Chief at the UTMB Children’s Hospital, and as Professor of Microbiology and Immunology.. He retired from this position in 2002. Since that time, he has returned to the Children’s Hospital of Buffalo and is currently serving as Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Dr. Ogra has been a member of over 30 prestigious national and international scientific societies, These include election as a, elected Member Association of American Physicians, American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Pediatric Society; Elected Fellow Royal Society (Medicine) UK . Infectious Diseases Society of America, American Academy of Microbiology. He has received multiple honors and awards, and has served as an honored guest and commencement speaker at medical school graduation events. He has served on many study sections, and national and international advisory panels of World Health Organization, National Institutes of Health (US) Institute of Medicine:, US National academy of Sciences, Federal Drug Administration ,International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, S. Korea, European Union ,Mucosal Vaccine Development Program.
Dr. Ogra was born in Kashmir, India. He obtained his Medical degree from the Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, India., and residency and post-doctoral training in Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, Clinical Virology and Immunology at the University of Chicago, New York University-Bellevue Medical Center, and at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York respectively. He continues to remain very active as a consultant and a teacher in the diverse areas of vaccine research and development and in the global issues of childhood infectious diseases. He devotes significant amount of his effort in the field in South Asia, towards the control of vaccine preventable diseases of the poor.