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Leonard Weiner, MD

5410 Upstate University Hospital
750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
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CURRENT APPOINTMENTS

Distinguished Service Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Pathology
Division Chief of Immunology and Infectious Disease
Division Chief of Pediatric and Adolescent Infectious Disease/Immunology Center
Division Chief of Pediatric Designated HIV Center

SPECIALTIES

Pediatrics
Pediatric Infectious Diseases

LANGUAGES

English

PATIENT TYPE

Adults and Children

RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND AFFILIATIONS

Pediatrics

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Clinical Research focusing on Pediatric and Adolescent Vaccine Trials, antiviral therapeutic trials and epidemiologic studies of pediatric respiratory viral infections.

EDUCATION INTERESTS

Training of Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellows

ASSOCIATIONS / MEMBERSHIPS

Alpha Omega Alpha Honour Society
American Academy of Pediatrics
Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
Onondaga County Pediatric Society

EDUCATION

Fellowship: Harvard Medical School/Children's Hospital Medical Ctr., Boston, MA, 1970, Pediatric Infectious Disease
Residency: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1968
Internship: University of Pennsylvania Health System, 1964
MD: Tufts University School of Medicine, 1963

RESEARCH ABSTRACT

Blatter M, Weiner L, Kennedy D, Bologa M:  Safety of Tetanus-Diphtheria-Acellular Pertussis (Tdap) Vaccine in Adults.  17th World Conference of Family Doctors, WONCA 2004.

Polak M, Weiner L, Cragin L, McLaurin K, Sorenson S, Groothuis J, Mahadevia P.  Cost-effectiveness of RSV Prophylaxis with Palivizumab after Valuing a Reduction in Recurrent Wheezing Among Preterm Infants 32-35 Weeks Gestation, American Academy of Pediatrics Conference, San FranciscoCA, 2007.

Suryadevara M, Moro MR, Rosenbaum P, Kika D, Ridell S, Shaw J.  Invasive community-acquired methicililn-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in children in upstate New York.  Pediatric Academic Societies, Honolulu HI, May 2008.

Moro MR, Contello K, Holz W, Weiner LB, Shaw J.  Subcutaneous (SCIG) veruss Intravenous (IVIG Immunoglobulin Replacement Therapy in a Pediatric Population with Primary Immunodeficiencies (PID).  Pediatric Academic Societies, Baltimore MD, May 2009.

Publications

Frankowski, BL, Weiner, LB, the Committee on School Health and the Committee on Infectious Diseases, AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics:  Head Lice.  Pediatrics, 2002;110:638-643.

Havens, PL and the Committee on Pediatric AIDS, AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics:  Postexposure Prophylaxis in Children and Adolescents for Nonoccupational Exposure to Human Immunodeficiency Virus.  Pediatrics, 2003;111(6):1475-1489.

Samkari A, Kiska DL, Riddell SW, Wilson K, Weiner LB, and Domachowske JB.  Dipylidium Caninum Mimicking Recurrent Enterobius Vermicularis (Pinworm) Infection.  Clin Pediatr, 2007.