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Associate Professor
University of Colorado
Aurora, CO, United States
Kevin Messacar, MD PhD, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is an attending pediatric hospitalist and infectious disease consultant at Children's Hospital Colorado. Dr. Messacar obtained a BS with honors in biochemistry at the University of Michigan, MD at the University of Michigan Medical School, and PhD in Clinical Investigations at the University of Colorado Graduate School. Dr. Messacar did his pediatric residency and infectious disease fellowship training at the University of Colorado where he received numerous teaching awards.
Dr. Messacar's research seeks to improve diagnostic tests and surveillance for central nervous system infections with a focus on enteroviruses and other emerging infectious diseases. He is interested in the process of selecting, implementing, and evaluating newly rapid diagnostic technologies using concepts of diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship. In 2014, Dr. Messacar received the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Astute Physician Award for recognition of the association between acute flaccid myelitis and enterovirus D68 in Colorado children, and he is currently a member of the CDC Acute Flaccid Myelitis Task Force. In 2021, he received the Young Investigator Award from the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society for significant contributions to the field in the first 7 years of his career. He is currently the principal investigator of a multicenter pandemic preparedness clinical research study with the NIAID Vaccine Research Center called PREMISE, Pandemic REsponse REpository: Microbial and Immunologic Surveillance and Epidemiology.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Saturday, October 22, 2022
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM US ET
Saturday, October 22, 2022
3:40 PM – 4:05 PM US ET