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Alicia Fry Medical officer & Team leader for the Influenza Prevention and Control Team, Epidemiology and Prevention Branch, Influenza Division, Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA |
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Alicia M. Fry, MD, MPH, is a medical officer and team leader for the Influenza Prevention and Control Team, Epidemiology and Prevention Branch, Influenza Division, within CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD). She oversees epidemiologic activities related to influenza vaccine and antiviral effectiveness, antiviral resistance, as well as other projects related to the morbidity and mortality associated with infection with influenza viruses. Dr. Fry joined the CDC in 1999 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in the Respiratory Diseases Branch of the Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases. In subsequent years, she served as a medical officer in the division's Foodborne and Diarrheal Disease Branch and the International Activities Branch of the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination in the National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention. Prior to her current post, Dr. Fry was the medical officer and team lead for the Respiratory and Enterovirus team of the Epidemiology Branch in NCIRD's Division of Viral Diseases. Dr. Fry earned her Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Cincinnati - College of Medicine in Ohio. After completing her residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Dr. Fry completed subspecialty training in infectious diseases and a molecular medicine fellowship at the University of California-San Francisco. She subsequently earned her Master of Public Health from the University of California-Berkeley. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles. In addition to her work at the CDC, Dr. Fry serves as a clinician in the Infectious Diseases Clinic for the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Atlanta, Georgia. |
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