Chief Medical Editor

Philip A. Brunell, MD, is professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. He also has held academic appointments as the Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio and as associate professor at New York University School of Medicine. In addition, he was a member of the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health.

Dr. Brunell is a graduate of the City College of New York and received a Master's Degree in Physiology from the University of Illinois. He graduated from the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and remained on in Buffalo as a rotating intern at the E.J. Meyer Memorial Hospital and as a Pediatric Resident at Buffalo Children's Hospital. After a short time in pediatric practice, he joined the Public Health Service and was assigned to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During his career, he has had additional training at the National Institutes of Health, The University of Amsterdam, the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research and the Clinical Research Center in London.

Dr. Brunell is a former member of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and has been chair of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (Red Book Committee) of the American Academy of Pediatrics He also was alternate District chair for district II and alternate chapter chair for the Texas chapter of the AAP. He has also served as President of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society. He is currently secretary and a member of the executive committee of the World Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Brunell's main research interests have been varicella-zoster infections and immunization. He has published numerous articles in both basic and clinical scientific journals and has contributed to major textbooks of pediatrics, medicine and infectious diseases. He was a co-author of the first edition of Principals of Pediatrics, Health Care of the Young.