Anne Gershon is an infectious disease researcher and professor of pediatrics at Columbia University.
[2] This group, funded by the NIH, showed that the varicella vaccine was safe even for children who were in remission from leukemia.
[7] In 1991, the group published "The Incidence of Zoster after Immunization with Live Attenuated Varicella Vaccine -- A Study in Children with Leukemia," in the New England Journal of Medicine.
[1] In 2013, Gershon was awarded the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal in recognition of her research that led to public acceptance of the chickenpox vaccine.
[3] She has also cited her personal experiences with infectious diseases, including toxoplasmosis and mononucleosis, as her reason to study vaccinology.