Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Canada
Disclosure(s): MedImmune: Grant/Research Support; Merck: Grant/Research Support
Dr. Jeffrey (Des) Pernica, MSc MD FRCPC DTMH, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McMaster University. His clinical interests, aside from infectious disease in general, include tropical medicine (he is a member of the Canadian Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel) and immunization (he is the co-Chair of the Ontario Immunization Advisory Committee). His research interests relate to the optimization of the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory infections, enteric infections, and sepsis, both in resource-limited and resource-rich settings. He has received research funding as PI from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Physicians’ Services Incorporated Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, Hamilton Health Sciences, and the Hamilton Academic Health Sciences Organization Innovation Fund.