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Senior physician /Clinical researcher
Soroka University Medical Center, Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Israel
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dana Danino, MD
Dana Danino graduated from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Technology, Haifa, in 2006, and specialized in Pediatrics in the Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
She has worked as a senior pediatrician in the Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel, since 2014 and in 2017 completed her Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, with honors, at the same hospital.
In 2019 she graduated the Host Defense ID Fellowship program in the Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Ohio, USA.
Since 2017 she is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. At the clinical level she is working as a director at the Department of Pediatrics of the same University hospital.
Her current research / scientific interests focus on vaccine preventable infections and vaccination of children after hematopoietic stem cell transplant, antibiotic consumption in the community, pneumococcal infections and vaccines and the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the burden of respiratory infections in children. Dana has contributed peer-reviewed articles publications and has presented her research work in numerous National and International congresses.
Dana is a co-chair of the 2024 European Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases annual conference, a member of Israeli Pediatric Society and the Israeli Infectious Diseases Society.
Dana lives in Tel-Aviv with her husband and 3 children and enjoys running and biking.