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Kevin Messacar, MD PhD

Professor
University of Colorado

Kevin Messacar, MD PhD, is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and a practicing pediatric infectious disease consultant at Children's Hospital Colorado. Dr. Messacar obtained a BS with honors in biochemistry at the University of Michigan and MD at the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Messacar did his pediatric residency and infectious disease fellowship training at the University of Colorado. He completed a PhD in Clinical Investigations at the University of Colorado Graduate School and is the Associate Director of Resources and Services for the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI).
Dr. Messacar's research seeks to improve diagnosis, management, and prevention of central nervous system infections, including meningitis, encephalitis, and myelitis, with a focus on enteroviruses and other emerging infectious diseases. He is currently the principal investigator of the PREMISE (Pandemic REsponse REpository: Microbial and Immunologic Surveillance and Epidemiology) study, a multicenter pandemic preparedness program with the NIAID Vaccine Research Center seeking to create an immunologic biorepository to be used for development of on-the-shelf countermeasures against emerging pathogens with pandemic potential.

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose.

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