Mary Lou Lindegren, MD, MPH

Dr. Lindegren received her BS and MD degree from Duke University. She completed her pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.  She received her MPH degree from Emory University. She served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Division of Immunization, and then spent over twenty years at CDC as a medical officer in the US Public Health Service focused on infectious diseases, particularly domestic and international maternal and pediatric HIV, maternal and child health, public health genomics, and serving as the editor for the MMWR.  She came to Vanderbilt after CDC where her research interests  have included international maternal child health, prevention of perinatal HIV transmission, and infectious diseases. She is a principal investigator on research grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and co-investigator on grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NIH, the Gates Foundation, and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.  She is co-PI on the NIH funded Vanderbilt Coordinating Center for the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA), an international HIV observational database collaborative following over 1,000,000 HIV-infected adults and children. Dr. Lindegren is board-certified in pediatrics and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.