The Institute of Medicine of Chicago will award Dr. Archana Chatterjee, MD, PhD, the 2025 The Portes Foundation & IOMC Award for Prevention of Disease. This honor will be presented at the 2025 Leadership Awards & Annual Meeting on June 26, 2025, at Maggiano's-Chicago. The event is open to all and unites healthcare advocates, academic institutions, medical organizations, and community partners. For more details and to register, visit here.
Dr. Chatterjee has advocated for pediatric health throughout her academic career. She has trained the next generation of pediatricians in infectious diseases, her groundbreaking research on childhood vaccines has improved patients’ health, and her service in the American Pediatric Society, the Society for Pediatric Research, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Pediatric
Infectious Diseases Society has been a model of leadership.
Beginning in 2000, she served as the Hospital Epidemiologist and Medical Director of Infection Control at the Children’s Hospital and Medical Center (CUSOM) in Omaha, NE, for 13 years. In 2006, she became the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease. From 2013 to 2020, she served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine (USD SSOM).
During this extended 20-year period, Dr. Chatterjee was either the only or one of 2 to 3 pediatric infectious disease specialists caring for the children in the states of Nebraska and South Dakota.
Trained as an infectious disease specialist focusing on vaccinology, Dr. Chatterjee is board-certified in General Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases by the American Board of Pediatrics. She is nationally recognized
for her work in vaccine development for human papillomaviruses, serving on the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) since 2019.
This year, she became the Chair-Elect for the American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-board of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. She has also written a book entitled “Vaccinophobia and Vaccine Controversies of the 21st Century” and is currently working on an updated version.
You can learn more about Dr. Chatterjee and our leadership award recipients at the event. Grab a ticket now!
2025 Leadership Awards & Annual Meeting
110th Anniversary
June 26, 2025
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT
Maggianos-Chicago
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