Andrew T. Pavia M.D.
Dr. Pavia is George and Esther Gross Presidential Professor and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center and Primary Children's Hospital. He received his B.A and M.D. at Brown University. He trained in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Dartmouth and the University of Utah, did an Infectious Disease Fellowship at the University of Utah and trained in Public Health Epidemiology as an EIS officer and a Preventive Medicine Resident at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
He is involved in the care of adults, pregnant women, and children with HIV and children with other infectious diseases. His research interests include the epidemiology of influenza and other emerging infections, vaccine preventable diseases, and HIV/ AIDS, with a particular interest in the treatment of HIV in women, children and prevention of mother to child transmission. He is a member of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee and chairs the Vaccine Safety Subcommittee, and Chair of the National and Global Public Policy Committee and the Pandemic Influenza Task Force of the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA). He is on the editorial board of JAIDS, a section editor for Current Infectious Disease Reports and a reviewer for numerous journals. He has published more than 100 scientific articles and chapters.
He was born in New York City in 1956 and lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, a professor at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah, their two children, two dogs and a wide variety of skis and bicycles.
