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Glenn J. Fennelly, MD, MPH
718 918 4026
glenn.fennelly@einstein.yu.edu
Dr. Fennelly is the Director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, He has served on several NIH scientific review panels including the Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Gene and Drug Delivery and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Innovations in HIV Vaccines and AIDS Immunopathogenesis study sections.
Dr. Fennelly has expertise in the prevention and treatment of pediatric HIV infection. Since 2006, he has traveled to Viet Nam and Ethiopia to work as a clinical mentor and educator for physicians treating children with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. He is also an editor for the eMedicine Online Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Dr. Fennelly is board-certified in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and he is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Undergraduate:
Dartmouth College
Graduate:
Harvard School of Public Health, MPH in Clinical Effectiveness
Medical School:
New Jersey Medical School- Newark
Training:
Internship and Residency: Montefiore Medical Center
General Academic Pediatrics Fellowship: Montefiore Medical Center
Infectious Disease Fellowship: Montefiore Medical Center
Awards and Honors:
1999 Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Research Grant Award
1997 National Foundation for Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award
1991 Connaught Laboratories Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship Award
1991 The Leo M. Davidoff Society Certificate of Distinction
Research and/or Clinical Interests:
Scale up of prevention and treatment HIV in high-prevalence resource-limited settings
Treatment of nosocomial infections
Vaccines
Development of a combination pediatric HIV-TB vaccine
HIV immunopathogenesis in children
Bibliography:
Ranganathan U, Larsen M, Kim J, Porcelli SA, Jacobs WR, Jr, Fennelly GJ. Recombinant Proapoptotic M. tuberculosis Generates CD8+ T-cell Responses Against Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Env and M. tuberculosis in Neonatal Mice. Vaccine 2009.
Bueno SM, González PA, Cautivo KM, Mora JE, Leiva ED, Tobar HE, Fennelly GJ, Eugenin EA, Jacobs WR Jr, Riedel CA, Kalergis AM. Protective T cell immunity against respiratory syncytial virus is efficiently induced by recombinant BCG. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Dec 15.
Mo Y, Quanquin NM, Fennelly GJ, et al: Genetic alteration of Mycobacterium smegmatis to improve mycobacterium-mediated transfer of plasmid DNA into mammalian cells and DNA immunization.
Infect Immun
2007;75):4804-16.
Raffaelli RM, Paladini M, Fennelly GJ, et al: Child care-associated outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and hemolytic uremic syndrome.
Pediatr Infect Dis J
2007;26:951-3.
Ballan WM, Vu BA, Fennelly GJ et al: Natural killer cells in perinatally HIV-1-infected children exhibit less degranulation compared to HIV-1-exposed uninfected children and their expression of KIR2DL3, NKG2C, and NKp46 correlates with disease severity.
J Immunol
2007;179:3362-70.
Mo Y, Quanquin NM, Fennelly GJ, et al: Genetic alteration of Mycobacterium smegmatis to improve mycobacterium-mediated transfer of plasmid DNA into mammalian cells and DNA immunization.
Infect Immun
2007;75):4804-16.
Abadi J, Sprecher E, Fennelly GJ, et al: Partial treatment interruption of protease inhibitor-based highly active antiretroviral therapy regimens in HIV-infected children.
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr
2006;41:298-303.
Cayabyab MJ, Hovav AH, Fennelly GJ, et al: Generation of CD8+ T-cell responses by a recombinant nonpathogenic Mycobacterium smegmatis vaccine vector expressing human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Env.
J Virol
2006;80:1645-52.
Fennelly GJ. And Charles M, Opportunities to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV: Lessons learned in Bronx (New York), Kijabe (Kenya) and Kericho (Kenya). PART I of II. Perspectives From the International Center for Equal Healthcare Access. Medscape May 2006
Legrand FA, Abadi J, Fennelly GJ, et al: Partial treatment interruption of protease inhibitors augments HIV-specific immune responses in vertically infected pediatric patients.
AIDS
2005;19:1575-85.
Vecino WH, Quanquin NM, Fennelly GJ, et al: Mucosal immunization with attenuated Shigella flexneri harboring an influenza hemagglutinin DNA vaccine protects mice against a lethal influenza challenge.
Virology
2004;325:192-9.
Fennelly GJ: Mycobacterium bovis versus Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a cause of acute cervical lymphadenitis without pulmonary disease.
Pediatr Infect Dis J
2004;23:590-1.
Sandberg JK, Fast NM, Fennelly GJ, et al: HIV-specific CD8+ T cell function in children with vertically acquired HIV-1 infection is critically influenced by age and the state of the CD4+ T cell compartment.
J Immunol
2003;170:4403-10.
Eaton EE, Dobrozycski J, Loas R, Laddis D, Fennelly GJ: Nontyphoidal salmonella bacteremia and pneumonia as the initial manifestation of human immunodeficiency virus infection in a four-year-old child.
AIDS Patient Care STDS
2002;16:247-50.
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