Juan Carlos Salazar, MD, MPH, FAAP, is Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Executive Vice President and Physician-in-Chief at Connecticut Children’s.
In addition to serving in these roles, Dr. Salazar has led the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology at Connecticut Children’s and has been nationally and internationally recognized for both his outstanding clinical care and his innovative research work. Dr. Salazar has received several National Institutes of Health grants to study the human innate immune response to Borrelia burgdorferi and Treponema pallidum, the causative agents of Lyme disease and syphilis respectively. He is currently funded by the NIH to develop a first-of-its-kind syphilis vaccine. The NIH-funded U-19 project includes investigators in China, Malawi, Colombia, and the US. Most recently his team received funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to study the pathogenesis of COVID-19 and the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a rare but serious condition associated with COVID-19. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has served on multiple scientific review panels at the NIH.
Dr. Salazar also directs the Pediatric and Youth HIV program at the Medical Center. His team has promoted and facilitated regional STD and HIV prevention programs for at-risk high school youth. Dr. Salazar is the current recipient of Ryan White Care Act federal funding to coordinate and provide statewide HIV treatment and prevention services for women, infants, children, and youth. He has conducted several NIH and pharmaceutical industry-sponsored pediatric and adolescent HIV clinical trials and long-term follow-up studies.
He received his medical degree from the Universidad Javeriana, in Bogota, Colombia, and his MPH from the University of Minnesota. He completed a residency in Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut Health Center, where he also served as chief resident, and a post-doctoral fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Minnesota. He is board-certified in both Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases.
Locations Where I See Patients
Connecticut Children’s Specialty Care Center – Hartford (85 Seymour St.)
85 Seymour Street
Hartford, CT06106
United States
