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James Conway, BS, MD, FAAP
Associate Professor - Pediatric Infectious Disease, School of Medicine and Public Health


Location: Room H4/450 Clinical Sciences Center
Phone: (608) 263-9941
Email:
jhconway@pediatrics.wisc.edu

Dr. Conway joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Department of Pediatrics in 2005, in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease, as an Associate Professor (CHS). He is Board Certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics, where he is a member of the Sections on Infectious Disease and International Child Health.  He is also an active member of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society and Infectious Disease Society of America.  He was previously on the faculty at the Indiana University School of Medicine from 1997-2005 where he served as Pediatric Residency Associate Program Director, and founded the International Adoption Clinic there.  

Among his many academic interests is the implementation of educational programs, especially related to international health and vaccine-preventable infectious diseases.  He has worked over the last 5 years on a project called the Merck Vaccine Network – Africa, collaborating with the Kenyan Expanded Programme on Immunization and Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya toward improving immunization coverage rates in east Africa through health worker training and education, and travels there regularly.  He has recently been named to the Syphilis Education Council, which has been established to help coordinate international efforts toward the control and elimination of congenital syphilis.

 He is active in public health programs domestically as well, as a member of the Wisconsin State Dept. of Health Committee on Immunization Practice, Chair of the UW Immunization Task Force, the Board of Directors for the Dane County Immunization Coalition, and Chair of the Wisconsin AAP Committee on Immunizations and Infectious Disease.


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