Flor Munoz

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About Flor Munoz

Flor Muñoz, MD, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at Baylor College of Medicine, and Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, TX. She is a clinician-investigator with various projects supported by the US NIH, CDC, BMGF or industry, focusing on vaccines, the epidemiology of respiratory infections in healthy and immunocompromised hosts, and the evaluation of safety and immunogenicity of vaccines in pregnant women, children, and transplant recipients. She has published extensively on topics related to influenza, RSV, vaccines, and maternal immunization. Dr Muñoz is a former member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Infectious Diseases (COID), and current member of the Section of Infectious Diseases (SOID), the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) MPox working group, and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) Immunization Expert Work Group. Dr. Munoz serves as chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Baylor College of Medicine, and is a member of various academic societies, including the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) and the PIDS Transplant Committee, the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR), the Research Committee of the European Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Dr. Munoz is a member of the Board of the US National Foundation of Infectious Diseases (NFID).