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William Steinbach, MD

Robert H. Fiser, Jr., MD Endowed Chair in Pediatrics Chair, Department of Pediatrics Associate Dean for Child Health College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Pediatrician-in-Chief, Arkansas Children’s
Arkansas Children's, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR, United States

William J. Steinbach, MD is Robert H. Fiser, Jr. MD Endowed Chair in Pediatrics, Chair of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Child Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and the Pediatrician-in-Chief at Arkansas Children’s since January, 2022. Prior to assuming the leadership of UAMS Pediatrics he was the Samuel L. Katz Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Vice-Chair of Research at Duke University. For the last 20 years, Dr. Steinbach has led an NIH-funded multi-disciplinary clinical care and research program supporting immunosuppressed children. His molecular, translational, and clinical research focuses on the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of invasive fungal infections and spans broader efforts with all infections in immunocompromised patients. His laboratory centers on the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus to understand the molecular mechanisms of cellular signal transduction in disease, develop novel fungal-specific molecular targets as therapeutics, devise new diagnostic assays, and conduct phase I-IV clinical trials in children. Dr. Steinbach founded and is the Director of the International Pediatric Fungal Network, a global consortium of 55 sites dedicated to investigating pediatric invasive fungal infections through multi-center cooperative studies that has led to the first pediatric-specific guidelines for these diseases. He has co-edited 14 textbook editions, including Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillosis, the two-volume 4,000 page Feigin & Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, the American Academy of Pediatrics Nelson's Pediatric Antimicrobial Therapy, and most recently the first textbook in a new subfield: Pediatric Transplant and Oncology Infectious Diseases.

He served on the American Academy of Pediatrics prestigious Committee on Infectious Diseases (Red Book Committee) and is currently the President-elect of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. He has been elected into the American Pediatric Society and Alpha Omega Alpha, and is a fellow of several other societies, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology. He was elected into the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, for which he currently serves on the national Council. In 2016, he was the recipient of the American Federation for Medical Research Outstanding Investigator Award, given annually to one individual in the country as the top translational biomedical researcher under age 45 chosen from all disciplines. In 2017, he was awarded the Oswald Avery Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America as the top adult or pediatric infectious diseases researcher under age 45.

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