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Charles Prober, MD is the Founding Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Health Education and Senior Associate Vice Provost for Health Education at Stanford University. He is an expert in pediatric infectious diseases with an academic career focused on the epidemiology, pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment of infections in children. Some of his seminal work has resulted in the improvement of international blood transfusion practices through the selection of cytomegalovirus negative donors for immunocompromised hosts; the optimal duration of antibiotic therapy for serious bacterial infections, including osteomyelitis and meningitis; the use of antiviral agents in the management of serious herpes virus infections; and the standardization of care in the management of pregnant women with herpes simplex virus infections and their newborn infants.

Dr. Prober has published extensively in peer-reviewed subspecialty, specialty, and general medical journals. He is the editor of Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, one of the major textbooks in the field of pediatric infectious diseases.

Dr. Prober has been involved in medical education throughout his career, and has received numerous awards for teaching, including the Henry J. Kaiser Teaching Award for Outstanding and Innovative Contributions to Medical Education in 2016 and the Oscar Salvatierra Award for Exceptional Service to Stanford Medical Students and the School of Medicine in 2022. He has directed a number of undergraduate and graduate student courses, served as Associate Chair for Education for the Department of Pediatrics, and as Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education at Stanford from 2007 to 2017.

Dr. Prober holds a medical degree from the University of Manitoba in Canada. He completed his pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg and the University of California, San Francisco. His fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases was completed at Stanford.