Acute Flaccid Myelitis Task Force Members

BSC ID Members

Ruth Lynfield, MD (Task Force Co-Chair)

State Epidemiologist and Medical Director

Minnesota Department of Health

Tina Tan, MD (Task Force Co-Chair)

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Division of Infectious Diseases

Emily Erbelding, MD, MPH (BSC ID Ex Officio)

National Institutes of Health

Director, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

AFM Clinical and Research Experts

Leslie Benson, MD

Boston Children's Hospital

Department of Neurology

Benjamin Greenberg, MD, MHS

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics

Bryan Grenfell, PhD

Princeton University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Tory Johnson, PhD

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Department of Neurology

Bonnie Maldonado, MD

Stanford University School of Medicine

Department of Pediatrics

Kevin Messacar, MD

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Department of Pediatrics

John Modlin, MD

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Deputy Director for Polio Research and Policy

Avi Nath, MD

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Carlos Pardo-Villamizar, MD

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Department of Neurology

Director, Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center

Cristina Sadowsky, MD

Kennedy Krieger Institute

International Center for Spinal Cord Injury

Matthew Schniederjan, MD

Emory University School of Medicine

Department of Pathology

Jill Taylor, PhD

Director, Wadsworth Center

New York State Department of Health

Ken Tyler, MD

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Chair, Department of Neurology

Arun Venkatesan, MD, PhD

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Division of Neuroimmunology and Neuroinfectious Diseases