Contact:
Phone: 773.880.4187
Fax: 773.880.8226
e-mail: ttan@northwestern.edu 

Academic Appointment:
Professor of Pediatrics
Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine 

Clinical Appointment:
Director, International Adoptee Program
Associate Director, International Travel Immunizations Program
Clinical Practice Director and Attending Physician
Division of Infectious Diseases
Children’s Memorial Hospital 
ID Physician Consultant, Northwestern Memorial Hospital Prentice Women’s Hospital

Clinical Interests:
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infections (MRSA), Pertussis (Whooping Cough), Travel Immunizations, International Adoption, Pneumococcal Infections, Antibiotic Resistance

Research Interest:
Dr. Tan’s research interests focus on the epidemiology of pneumococcal infections and antibiotic resistance and is a principal investigator in the U.S. Multicenter Pneumococcal Surveillance Study Group; pertussis disease epidemiology and preventative vaccines; community-acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections and the transmission dynamics between pregnant women and their newborn infants (in collaboration with investigators in the Department of OB/GYN, Prentice Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago). She has participated in both vaccine and antibiotic clinical trials as a Principal-Investigator and is also involved in several vaccine survey studies which examine the awareness, acceptance, barriers and utilization of recommended preventative vaccines among healthcare consumers and primary healthcare physicians. These studies are being conducted in collaboration with Dr. Melvin Gerbie in the Department of OB/GYN.

Publications (most recent):
Gerbie MV, Tan TQ: Pertussis Disease in New Mothers: Impact on Young Infants and Strategies for Prevention. Obstet Gynecol 2009 (in press).

Jaggi P, Paule S, Peterson L, Tan T: Clonal Differences and Presence of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Among Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant and Methicillin-Sensitive S. aureus Infections in Chicago. Emerg Infect Dis 2007; 13:311-314.

Forsyth KD, Wirsing von Konig CH, Tan T, et al: Prevention of Pertussis: Recommendations Derived from the Second Global Pertussis Initiative Roundtable Meeting. Vaccine 2007; 25:2634-2642.

Mason EO Jr, Wald ER, Tan TQ, et al: Recurrent Systemic Pneumococcal Disease in Children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2007; 26:480-484.

Terp S, Bar-Meir M, Tan T: BCG Site Reactivation in an Adopted Child with Kawasaki Disease. Clin Infect Dis 2007; 45:487-488, 518-519.

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