Title: Ebola Vaccine Development and Clinical Trials

Speaker: Jane R. Zucker, MD, MSc                                                           Assistant Commissioner                                                                       Bureau of Immunization                                                                      New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Date: Wednesday, May 4th 2016                                               Time: 12pm-1pm                                                                               Location: CAM Building, 17 East 102nd St, West Tower Elevator, 5th Floor, D5-122

Bio:                                                                                                               Dr. Jane R. Zucker has served as the Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Immunization at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene since August 2005. She is responsible for policy development and program management of the NYC Immunization Program. Dr. Zucker’s responsibilities also include development of programs and policies to increase vaccine coverage of adults, adolescents and children citywide, introduce new vaccines and oversight of the Vaccines for Children program (VFC) and the Citywide Immunization Registry (CIR). Dr. Zucker had the privilege of deploying to Sierra Leone with the CDC Ebola Vaccine Team for nearly 6 weeks in 2015. She was responsible for implementing protocols for medical management and surveillance for Ebola virus disease in study participants. She was able to return to Sierra Leone to work with the CDC Ebola Vaccine Team in January 2016.

Dr. Zucker started with the CDC in 1990 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in the Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases. In 1996, she was assigned to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to oversee their global polio eradication initiative. She joined the Bureau of Immunization as the Medical Director in 2000.

Dr. Zucker received her MD degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and her MSc degree in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her internal medicine residency at Kings County Hospital/SUNY Downstate and her Infectious Diseases fellowship at the Beth Israel, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute program in Boston. Dr. Zucker is board certified in internal medicine and infection diseases and a Fellow in the Infectious Disease Society of America. She is widely published in peer-reviewed medical journals.

If you need more information please contact:                     erica.blanding-navarro@mssm.edu

*Light lunch will be provided