Leonard R. Krilov MD, FAAP

Leonard R. Krilov, MD, FAAP is presently Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Vice Chairman of Pediatrics at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, NY and Professor of Pediatrics at State University of New York Stony Brook School of Medicine. He received his medical training at Columbia University. He then completed a pediatric internship and residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and a Fellowship in pediatric infectious disease at Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society and an elected member of the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society. He is presently co-chair of the infectious disease committee for AAP Chapter 2, District 2 and past-president of the Nassau Pediatric Society.

Dr. Krilov is a native New Yorker. He has a career-long interest in clinical infectious diseases, respiratory viral infections and vaccine development. He has been involved in many of the RSV prevention trials, influenza and other pediatric vaccine trials. He has authored >100 original articles and book chapters. He is editor for Concise Reviews in Infectious Disease, Pediatric Annals, PREP self assessment, eMedicine and Infectious Disease in Practice. He is a reviewer for a number of pediatric and infectious disease journals including Pediatrics, Journal of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. Dr. Krilov is an elected member of the Executive Council of the Section on Infectious Disease of the American Academy of Pediatrics.