PDC 2019

FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
Adriano Arguedas MohsPfizer
Adriano Arguedas Mohs is a Costa Rican citizen who was born in Brazil and is a Pediatric Infectious
Diseases Specialist. Dr Arguedas Mohs completed his residency in Pediatrics at the University of
Costa Rica (1988) and a Fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of California,
Irvine (1991).
Currently resides in Collegeville, PA, USA and is the Scientific Affairs Lead for Emerging Markets in
Asia at Pfizer Inc.; he is also a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Ciéncias
Médicas in San José, Costa Rica. He has been a clinical instructor at the University of California, Irvine
and the University of Costa Rica and member of the Ethics Committee and of the Pharmacotherapy
Committee of the National Children’s Hospital of Costa Rica.
From 1992–2000 he served in various positions in the National Children’s Hospital of Costa Rica:
1991–1993: Attending Physician at the Department of Infectious Diseases; 1993–1998 Clinical Chief at
Medicine 1 Service; 1998–2000 Chief of the Emergency and Outpatient Department and Member of
the Hospital Technical Council. From 2001–2003 he was Head of the Division of Pediatric Research at
Neeman - ICIC and from 2003 to 2012 Founder and Director of the Instituto de Atención Pediátrica.
Dr Arguedas Mohs has a total of 120 publications in peer-reviewed journals, contributed in 15 chapters
for various medical textbooks, presented 150 papers at scientific conferences and given 250 lectures
at scientific meetings. He belongs to several global scientific committees and his current research
area focuses on disease prevention by new vaccines. He was awarded the Merle Carson Lectures
(Los Angeles, California, 1991) for the best research presentation in Southern California and twice
the prize awarded for scientific work (second place) for the Latin American Society of Pediatric
Infectious Disease Clinic (San José, Costa Rica [2007] and Guayaquil-Ecuador [2009]).
Eun Hwa Choi Korea
Eun Hwa Choi, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in the Department of Pediatrics
at Seoul National University College of Medicine in Seoul, Korea.
Dr Choi earned her medical degree from Seoul National University in 1990. She completed a residency
in pediatrics and a clinical fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at Seoul National University
Hospital. She then completed a 4-year research fellowship at the Immunocompromised Host Section
of the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1999-2003.
In 2013, she conducted research on pneumococcal vaccine at the Division of Infectious Diseases of
Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr Choi’s research interests are focused on respiratory infections, particularly on the respiratory
virus and mycoplasma in children. Her research has been published in a number of peer-reviewed
journals, including Clinical Infectious Diseases, Journal of Infectious Diseases and Journal of Clinical
Microbiology.
Dr Choi currently serves the Korean Centers for Disease Control as a member of the Expert
Committee of Immunization Practice. She is also a chair of the Korean Pediatric Society’s Committee
on Infectious Disease.
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