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UC Davis Health System

Dean A. Blumberg, M.D.

Dean A. Blumberg

Clinical/Research Interests

Dean A. Blumberg, who is a recognized authority on pediatric infectious diseases, serves on the California Department of Health Services Immunization Committee, Immunization Partnership's Physician Advisory Panel, and Shots for Tots Regional Coalition. He also chairs the Policy Outreach Committee. Blumberg conducts research and publishes on a variety of issues in immunology and infectious diseases, principally pertussis and varicella vaccines.

Title:

Associate Professor

Specialty:

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Center/Program Affiliation:

UC Davis Children's Hospital

Address:

Glassrock Building
2521 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95817

Phone:

(916) 734-3112

Education:

Chicago Medical School
Chicago, Illinois
M.D. 1984

UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California
B.A. 1980

Internships:

Massachusettes General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
1984-85

Residency:

Massachusettes General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
1985-87

Fellowships:

University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
1987-90

Board Certifications:

American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 1994
American Board of Pediatrics, 1989

Professional Memberships:

American Academy of Pediatrics
American Society for Microbiology
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Infectious Diseases Society of American
Pediatric Infectious Disease Society
Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America

Select Recent Publications:

Banatvala N, Griffin PM, Green KD, Barrett T J, Bibb WF, Green JH, Wells JG, Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Study Collaborators [including Dean Blumberg]. The United States national prospective hemolytic uremic syndrome study: Microbiologic, serologic, clinical, and epidemiologic findings. J Infect Dis;183:1063-1070, 2001.

Royce FH, Blumberg DA. Pneumocysitis carinii isolated from lung lavage fluid in an infant with cystic fibrosis. Pediatric Pulmonology;29:235-238, 2000.

Keitel WA, Muenz LR, Decker MD, Englund JA, Mink CM, Blumberg DA, Edwards KM. A randomized clinical trial of acellular pertussis vaccines in healthy adults: Dose-response comparisons of 5 vaccines and implications for booster immunization. J Infect Dis;180:397-403, 1999.

Braun MM, Terracciano G, Salive ME, Blumberg DA, Vermeer-de Bondt PE, Heijbel H, Evans G, Patriarca PA, Ellenberg SS. Report of a US Public Health Service Workshop on Hypotonic- Hyporesponsive Episode (HHE) After Pertussis Immunization. Pediatrics;102:e52, 1998.

Ngai AL, Staehle BO, Kuter BJ, Cyanovich NM, Cho I, Matthews H, Keller P, Arvin AM, Watson B, White CJ, Varivax Study Group (including Blumberg D). Safety and Immunogenicity of One vs. Two Injections of Oka/Merck Varicella Vaccine in Healthy Children Pediatrics Infectious Diseases Journal 1996;15: 49-54

McDiarmid SV, Blumberg DA, Remotti H, Vargas J, Tipton JR, Arment ME, Busutti RW, Mycobacterial Infections After Pediatric Liver Transplantation: A Report of Three Cases and Review of the Literature Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology Nutrition 1995;20:425-431

Deen JL, Mink CM, Cherry JD, Christenson PD, Pineda EF, Lewis K, Blumberg DA, Ross LA. Household Contact Study of Bordetella pertussis Infections Clinical Infectious Diseases 1995;21:1211-1219

Kuter BJ, Ngai A, Patterson CM, Staehle BO, Cho I, Matthew SH, Provost YJ, White CJ, Oka/Merck Varicella Vaccine Study Group (including Blumberg D). Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity of Two Regimens of Oka/Merck Varicella Vaccine (Varivax) in Healthy Adolescents and Adults Vaccine 1995; 13-967-972

Rennels MB, Wasserman SS, Glass RI, Keane VA, US Rotavirus Vaccine Efficacy Group (including Blumberg D). Comparison of Immunogenicity and Efficacy of Rhesus Rotavirus Reassortant Vaccines in Breastfed and Nonbreastfed Children Pediatrics 1995;96:1132-1136

To see if Dean A. Blumberg is accepting new patients, or for assistance finding a UC Davis doctor, please call (800) 2-UC DAVIS.