Professor of Pediatrics
University of Wisconsin -- Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health
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Dr. James Conway is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Divisions of Infectious Disease & Global Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine & Public Health, where he serves as Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program Director and Director of the Office of Global Health, as well as Associate Director for Health Sciences in the campus wide UW Global Health Institute. He is responsible for coordinating global health educational programs involving health professional students at UW-Madison, and oversight of international programs in the UW School of Medicine & Public Health.
He has spent his career working and advocating for the prevention of vaccine-preventable disease, in the US and abroad. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and received an AAP Special Achievement Award in 2009 for his immunization projects, and another in 2016 for leadership in HPV advocacy. He is Medical Director for Immunization Programs at UW Health, Chair of the Immunization & Infectious Diseases Committee of the Wisconsin AAP Chapter, represents the WI-AAP on the Wisconsin Council on Immunization Practice, and a member of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society Vaccine Advocacy Committee. He has served on the American Board of Pediatrics - Subboard of Pediatric Infectious Diseases since 2018.
Prior to joining the faculty in Madison, he served on faculty at the Indiana University School of Medicine from 1997-2005. He attended Cornell University for undergraduate and medical school, did his pediatric residency at Northwestern-Children’s Memorial Hospital, and his infectious diseases fellowship at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.
