Dr. Ann Arvin, MD, is the Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and professor of microbiology and immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, and the vice provost and dean of research, emerita, Stanford University. Dr. Arvin was vice provost and dean of research from 2006 to 2018.  In this role, she oversaw Stanford’s 18 interdisciplinary institutes and major shared research facilities, as well as university openness in research and other research policies, compliance with regulations concerning the responsible conduct of research and human and animal research, and the technology licensing/industry contracts office.

Dr. Arvin’s laboratory research focuses on molecular mechanisms of varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection and vaccines for this common human herpesvirus. Her clinical research seeks to understand the developing immune system in infants and young children in the context of viral infections and vaccines. Her work has been recognized by election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Academy of the American Society for Microbiology, the Association of American Physicians and the American Pediatric Society.

Her past and current service on national committees includes the Director’s Advisory Council of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Academy of Science/National Research Council Board on Life Sciences; the NAS/NRC Committees on Federal Research Regulations and Reporting Requirements (Report: ‘Optimizing the Nation’s Investment in Academic Research: A New Regulatory Framework for the 21st Century’), the Committee on Responsible Science (Report: ‘Fostering Integrity in Research’), Policy and Global Affairs, and the Committee on Science, Technology and Law.

Dr. Arvin was chief of the Infectious Diseases Division, the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford from 1984 to 2006. She received her BA from Brown University, MA in philosophy from Brandeis University, and MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and subspecialty training in infectious diseases at UCSF and Stanford University.