O’Leary briefed journalists in November 2021: Reporting on Kids and the COVID Vaccine.

Sean O’Leary, MD, MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist, an investigator at ACCORDS (Adult and Child Consortium for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science), and the Director of the Colorado Children’s Outcomes Network (COCONet), Colorado’s pediatric practice-based research network.

With over 160 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. O’Leary’s research focuses on the prevention of vaccine-preventable diseases through understanding clinical, attitudinal and infrastructural barriers to vaccination, and developing and testing interventions to address those barriers.

Dr. O’Leary is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Council on School Health and serves as the Vice Chair of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (the Red Book Committee) for the AAP. Dr. O’Leary serves as the liaison to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and currently represents the AAP on ACIP’s COVID-19 Vaccine Work Group. Prior to his infectious diseases fellowship, Dr. O’Leary was a partner in a large general pediatric practice in Fort Collins, Colorado for 8 years.