Senior physician /Clinical researcher
Soroka University Medical Center, Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Israel
Disclosure(s): Pfizer: Grant/Research Support
Dr. Dana Danino is a pediatrician and pediatric infectious diseases specialist, currently serving as Director of Pediatric Department A at the Cheryl and Haim Saban Children’s Hospital, Soroka University Medical Center, and as a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
She is the Scientific Secretary of the Israeli Society for Clinical Pediatrics, a board member of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID) and represents the board on ESPID’s Research Committee. In 2024, she co-chaired the local organizing committee for ESPID’s annual meeting. She is also an active member of the Israeli Society for Infectious Diseases and serves on the national pediatric infectious diseases board examination committee.
Dr. Danino is coordinating the medical mycology course at Ben-Gurion University’s Faculty of Health Sciences and serves on the MD thesis evaluation committee. She earned her MD from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, completed her pediatric residency at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and her fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at Soroka University Medical Center. She later completed advanced training in the Host Defense Infectious Diseases program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Ohio, USA, focusing on infections in immunocompromised and transplant pediatric patients.
Her research interests include vaccine-preventable diseases, immunization of children after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, community antibiotic consumption, and pneumococcal infections and vaccination. She has authored peer-reviewed publications and presented her work at national and international scientific meetings.
Dr. Danino lives in Tel Aviv with her husband and their three children.