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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. |