C. Buddy Creech, MD, MPH, FPIDS is Edie Carell Johnson Chair and Professor in Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. He serves as Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program; Principal Investigator of the NIH-funded Vanderbilt Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit; and Principal Investigator of the CDC-sponsored Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment Network. His team conducts clinical and translational research across a number of diseases (particularly pneumonia and osteomyelitis) and pathogens, including influenza, S. aureus, and pertussis. For the last two years, he has been leading COVID-related clinical trials at VUMC, including the evaluation of novel treatment options for hospitalized patients with COVID and trials of candidate COVID vaccines.
Dr. Creech is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research, the American Pediatric Society, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, where he serves as President.
