James D. Cherry, M.D., M.Sc. Distinguished Research Professor of Pediatrics David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Member of Division of Infectious Diseases Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA Dr. Cherry received his M.D. degree from the University of Vermont in 1957 and his M.Sc. degree in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1983.He was an intern and resident at Boston City Hospital and Kings County Hospital between 1957 and 1960.He served an Infectious Diseases fellowship at the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory and the Harvard Medical Service at Boston City Hospital during 1961 and 1962.He has held faculty positions at the University of Vermont, University of Wisconsin, St. Louis University, and UCLA extending from 1960 to 2021. Dr. Cherry has been involved in research related to vaccine preventable diseases since 1966. Professor James D. Cherry has been a pediatric infectious diseases specialist for 58 years. Presently, Professor Cherry is a Distinguished Research professor of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Following his infectious diseases fellowship training, Professor Cherry established one of the first formal pediatric infectious diseases fellowship programs in the world in 1963 at the University of Wisconsin, USA. Following this he ran a similar program at Saint Louis University and then since 1973, he has been at UCLA. During his 46 year tenure at UCLA, numerous trainees have gone on to be leaders in pediatric infectious diseases in the United States and in other countries throughout the world. In 1969-70, Professor Cherry was a visiting worker at the Medial Research Council, Common Cold Research Unit and Clinical Research Centre, Salisbury, England. In 1971-1972 ad 1977-1979, Professor Cherry studied measles and measles vaccines and more recently, complications relating to measles. From 1989 to 1996, Professor Cherry with Professor Stehr and Professor Ulrich Heininger carried out an extensive pertussis vaccine efficacy trial in Erlangen, Germany. In 2000-2001, he was a visiting scholar in the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, England. Professor Cherry has published 325 research papers, 108 editorials and commentaries and 303 book chapters. He is the senior editor of Feigin and Cherry’s Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases which is now in its 8th edition.