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Physician-in-Chief Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs
Education: MD, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 1986 MPH, University of Minnesota Medical School, 1995 Residency: Pediatrics, University of Connecticut, Pediatrics, 1988-1992 Fellowship: Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Minnesota, 1992-1995
Chair, Department of Pediatrics and Professor of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Juan Carlos Salazar, MD, MPH, is Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Executive Vice President and Physician-in-Chief at Connecticut Children’s.
In addition to serving in these roles, Dr. Salazar has led the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology at Connecticut Children’s and has been nationally and internationally recognized for both his outstanding clinical care and his innovative research work. Dr. Salazar has received several National Institutes of Health grants to study the human innate immune response to Borrelia burgdorferi and Treponema pallidum, the causative agents of Lyme disease and syphilis respectively. He is currently funded by the NIH to develop a first of its kind syphilis vaccine. The NIH funded U-19 project includes investigators in China, Malawi, Colombia and the US. Most recently his team received funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to study the pathogenesis of COVID-19 and the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a rare but serious condition associated with COVID-19. He has published over 100 peer reviewed articles and book chapters and has served in multiple scientific review panels at the NIH.
Dr. Salazar also directs the Pediatric and Youth HIV program at the Medical Center. His team has promoted and facilitated regional STD and HIV-prevention programs for at-risk high school youth. Dr. Salazar is the current recipient of Ryan White Care Act federal funding to coordinate and provide statewide HIV treatment and prevention services for women, infants, children and youth. He has conducted several NIH and pharmaceutical industry sponsored pediatric and adolescent HIV clinical trials and long-term follow-up studies.
He received his medical degree from the Universidad Javeriana, in Bogota, Colombia, and his MPH from the University of Minnesota. He completed a residency in Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut Health Center, where he also served as chief resident, and a post-doctoral fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Minnesota. He is board certified in both Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases.
Jonathan Y. Lam, Samantha C. Roberts, Chisato Shimizu, Emelio Bainto, Nipha Sivilay, Adriana H. Tremoulet, Michael A. Gardiner, John T. Kanegaye, Alexander H. Hogan, Juan C. Salazar, Sindhu Mohandas, Jacqueline R. Szmuszkovicz, Simran Mahanta, Audrey Dionne, Jane W. Newburger, Emily Ansusinha, Roberta L. DeBiasi, Shiying Hao, Xuefeng B. Ling, Harvey J. Cohen, Shamim Nemati, Jane C. Burns, the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Kawasaki Disease Research Group, the CHARMS Study Group. Multicenter Validation of a Machine Learning Algorithm for Diagnosing Pediatric Patients with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome and Kawasaki Disease. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.07.21268280, Jan 2022
Phamduy TT, Smith S, Herbest KW, Phamduy PT, Brimacombe M, Hogan AH, Salazar JC, and Sturm J. Kawasaki Disease in the United StTes 2016-2020: A Comparison of Before and During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Era. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2021 Aug 10. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003289. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34382611
Dailey J, Kozhaya L, Dogan M, Hopkins D, Lapin B, Herbst K, Brimacombe M, Grandonico K, Karabacak F, Schreiber J, Liang B, Salazar JC, Unutmaz D, Hyams JS. Antibody Responses to SARS-CoV-2 after Infection or Vaccination in Children and Young Adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2021 Sep 16:izab207. doi: 10.1093/ibd/izab207. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34528661
Benjamin SJ, Hawley KL, Vera-Licona P, La Vake, CJ, Cervantes JL, Ruan Y, Radolf JD, and Salazar JC. Macrophage mediated recognition and clearance of Borrelia burgdorferi elicits MyD88-dependent and -independent phagosomal signals that contribute to phagocytosis and inflammation. BMC Immunol. 2021 May 17;22(1):32. doi: 10.1186/s12865-021-00418-8. PMID: 34000990
Cervantes JL, Oak E, Garcia J, Liu H, Lorenzini PA, Batra D, Chhabra A, Salazar JC, Xavier R. Vitamin D modulates human macrophage response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA. Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2019 May;116S:S131-S137. doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2019.04.021. PMID: 31085128
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What is RSV? How is it different from the flu? When should I call my pediatrician or seek emergency care? Connecticut Children’s pediatric experts have the answers you need to get through respiratory season. But first—flu shot check! Is your child up to date on their vaccines? What is RSV and how serious can it […]
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You ask, we answer. In each edition of “Ask a Pediatrician,” Connecticut Children’s pediatric experts respond to a question from our community. Many parents wonder if their child can get both immunizations at once. Connecticut Children’s Physician-in-Chief Juan C. Salazar, MD, MPH, FAAP, answers. Want more articles like this from pediatric experts you trust? Sign up for […]
Posted In: Ask a Pediatrician, Back to School, Coronavirus
This post was last updated on October 20 , 2022. Did you know it’s peak season for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV? On one hand, RSV is nothing new. If your child is over the age of 2, they’ve probably had it at least once. As an adult, you might get sick with it every […]
Posted In: Community Health, Coronavirus, Infectious Diseases