Sarah Long, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine and Emeritus Chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. Dr. Long has served as Chair of the first Subspecialty Board of Pediatric Infectious Diseases of the American Board of Pediatrics (the national certifying agency for pediatrics and its subspecialties), Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Pediatrics, President of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (the national organization of subspecialists), and President of the Medical Staff at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. Dr. Long's principal areas of research are vaccine preventable diseases and management of common infectious diseases in children. She sits on research advisory committees for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Sarah Long, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine and Emeritus Chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. Dr. Long has served as Chair of the first Subspecialty Board of Pediatric Infectious Diseases of the American Board of Pediatrics (the national certifying agency for pediatrics and its subspecialties), Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Pediatrics, President of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (the national organization of subspecialists), and President of the Medical Staff at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. Dr. Long's principal areas of research are vaccine preventable diseases and management of common infectious diseases in children. She sits on research advisory committees for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.