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Medical Director of Infection Control
Education:
Haverford College, 1976 Tulane University School of Public Health, 1979 Tulane University School of Medicine, 1980
Residency:
Boston Children’s Hospital, 1980-1982
Fellowship:
Boston Children’s Hospital, 1982-1985
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Dr. Schreiber is the Medical Director of Infection Control at Connecticut Children’s and visiting Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Dr. Schreiber completed his Pediatric Residency and Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. He was Chief of Infectious Diseases at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and Case Western Reserve University, where his NIH funded laboratory focused on the immune response to bacterial polysaccharides and conjugate vaccines and yielded more than 100 papers and abstracts. He was then Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, followed by a second stint as Chair of Pediatrics at Tufts Medical School and the Floating Hospital for Children in Boston. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of Immunologists in 2008 and 2012. He was interim Chief of Infectious Diseases at Connecticut Children’s Hospital from 2019-2022.
Lai ZZ, Kimmel R, Petersen S, Thomas S, Pier GB, Bezebah B, Luo R, Schreiber JR. Multi-valent human monoclonal antibody preparation against Pseudomonas aeruginosa derived from transgenic mice containing human immunoglobulin loci is protective against fatal pseudomonas sepsis caused by multiple serotypes. Vaccine 23; 3264-3271: 2005.
Latz Eicke, Franko J, Golenbock D, and Schreiber JR. Haemophilus influenzae type b-OMPC glycoconjugate vaccine induces cytokine production by engaging human TLR 2 and requires the presence of TLR2 for optimal immunogenicity. J Immunol 172; 2431-2438: 2004
Kaur KK, Chowdhury S, Greenspan N, Schreiber JR. Decreased expression of tumor necrosis factor family ligands and receptors involved in humoral immunity in preterm neonates. Blood; 110; 2948-54: 2007.
Lai ZZ, Schreiber JR. Antigen processing of pneumococcal glycoconjugate vaccines; the polysaccharide component enters the APC and is associated with MHC II. Vaccine 27; 2009: 3137-3144
Lai ZZ, Schreiber JR. TLR2 stimulation enhances the pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide antibody response to the pneumococcal CRM197 conjugate vaccine. Clinical and Vaccine Immunology 18; 2011: 724-729
So your family is ready for a change of scenery, and the adults and older teens are fully vaccinated. But what if your younger child is still waiting on their COVID-19 vaccine? Before you make any spring or summer travel plans, Connecticut Children’s infectious disease expert John R. Schreiber, MD, MPH, has guidance. (Originally published in May of […]
Posted In: Coronavirus, Next Normal Kit, Summer Safety Kit
Since the very first cases of COVID-19 arrived in Connecticut in March of 2020, the pandemic has felt like a game of stop and go. And just when life seems to have returned back to normal after this past winter’s Omicron surge, here we are hearing and reading about the Omicron BA.2 subvariant. What should […]
Posted In: Coronavirus
You ask, we answer. In each edition of “Ask a Pediatrician,” Connecticut Children’s pediatric experts respond to a question from our community. This week, infectious disease pediatrician John R. Schreiber, MD, MPH, tackles a popular topic this cold and flu season, especially with the new threat of the Omicron variant. My child has a runny nose but no […]
Posted In: Ask a Pediatrician, Back to School, Coronavirus, School & Remote Learning Kit