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Faculty Detail     Name ROBERT F PASS   Campus Address CHB 309 Zip 0011 Phone 205-996-4104 E-mail rfpass@uab.edu Other websites

Faculty Appointment(s) Appointment Type Department Division Rank Primary  Pediatrics   Pediatrics Chair Office Professor Secondary  Microbiology  Microbiology Professor Center  Center for AIDS Research  Center for AIDS Research Professor Center  Comprehensive Cancer Center  Comprehensive Cancer Center Professor Center  General Clinical Research Center  Ctr for Clinical & Translational Sci Professor Center  General Clinical Research Center  Minority Health & Research Center Professor

Biographical Sketch  B.S. Chemistry 1969, University of Alabama (Phi Beta Kappa) M.D. University of Alabama School of Medicine, 1973 (Alpha Omega Alpha) Pediatric Internship and Residency, Stanford University Medical Center, 1973-1976 Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship, UAB Department of Pediatrics, 1976-1979 Faculty member, UAB Department of Pediatrics, 1979 to present Director, Pediatric Hospital Medicine, March 1010 to present Beth G. Dubina Endowed Chair in Pediatric Hospital Medicine, October 2011

Society Memberships Organization Name Position Held Org Link American Pediatric Society  member    American Society for Microbiology  member    American Society for Virology  member    Infectious Diseases Society of America  Fellow    Society for Pediatric Research  Member

Research/Clinical Interest Title Prevention of maternal and congenital CMV infection Description My principal research interest is the development of vaccines for prevention of maternal and congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. Currently, two clinical trials, supported by both NIH and industry, are being conducted in healthy young women with an investigational CMV glycoprotein B vaccine. These clinical trials will test the ability of the vaccine to prevent CMV infection and will provide substantial new information on vaccine safety and immunogenicity. In addition, they will offer a remarkable opportunity to characterize the virologic and immunologic features of CMV infection in healthy young adults, information that will be of great importance for future CMV vaccine trials.

Selected Publications  Publication PUBMEDID Flynn, PM, Nachman, S, Muresan, P, Fenton, T, Spector, SA, Cunningham, CK, Pass, R, et al: Safety and immunogenicity of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccination in perinatally HIV-1-infected children, adolescents, and young adults. J Infect Dis 206:421-30, 2012.  22615311  Johnson, J, Anderson, B, Pass, RF: Prevention of maternal and congenital cytomegalovirus infection. Clin Ob Gyn 55:521-30, 2012.  22510635  Cannon, MJ, Westbrook, K, Levis, D, Schleiss, MR, Thackeray, R, Pass, RF: Awareness of and behaviors related to child-to-mother transmission of cytomegalovirus. Preventive Medicine 54:351-7, 2012.  22465669  Arav-Boger, R, Wojcik, GL, Duggal, P, Ingersoll, RG, Beaty, T, Pass, RF, Yolken, RH: Polymorphisms in toll-like receptor genes influence antibody responses to cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B vaccine. BMC Research Notes 5:140, 2012.  22414065  Sabbaj, S, Pass, RF, Pichon, S, Goepfert, PA: CMV glycoprotein B vaccine is capable of boosting both antibody and CD4 T cell responses to CMV in chronically infected women. J Infect Dis 203:1534-41, 2011.   21592981  Pass, RF: Dried blood spots and universal newborn screening for congenital cytomegalovirus infection. Clin Infect Dis, 52:582-584, 2011  21292662  Murthy, S, Hayward, GS, Wheelan, S, Forman, MS, Pass, RF, Arav-Boger, R: Detection of a single identical cytomegalovirus (CMV) strain in recently seroconverted young women. PLoS One 6:e15949, 2011.  21264339  Pass, RF: Congenital cytomegalovirus infection: screening and treatment. J Pediatr, 157:179-80, 2010.   20542286  Hackett, DJ, Zhang, C, Stefanescu, C, Pass, RF: An ELISA for cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B antibody measurement in serum. Clin Vaccine Immunol 17:836-839, 2010.  20119875  Pass, RF, Zhang, C, Evans, A, Simpson, T, Andrews, W, Huang, M, Corey, L, Hill, J, Davis, E, Flanigan, C, Cloud, G: Vaccine prevention of maternal cytomegalovirus infection. N Engl J Med 360:1191-1199, 2009.  19297572  First Prev   1 2 of  2  Next Last

Keywords cytomegalovirus, congenital infection, vaccine development, pediatric HIV infection, clinical trials

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