Suresh Boppana, M.D., professor of pediatric infectious diseases in the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, is the recipient of the inaugural Congenital CMV (Cytomegalovirus) Award presented at the fifth annual International Congenital CMV Conference in Brisbane, Australia.
Boppana received the award at the April event, which gathered the world’s leading experts on CMV, a leading infectious cause of abnormalities including cerebral palsy and deafness in newborn babies. Boppana also presented the inaugural address at the conference: “Global Burden of Congenital CMV.”
UAB faculty members David Kimberlin, M.D., and Karen Fowler, Dr.P.H., also gave invited lectures at the conference.