Vincent A. Fulginiti, M.D. is Chancellor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He was educated at Temple University where he received successive degrees of B.S. (1953), M.D. (1957), and M.S. (1961). He interned at Philadelphia General Hospital (1957-58), completed a pediatric residency between 1958 and 1960 at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children (Temple University-Philadelphia) and was Chief Resident there (1960-61). He completed a fellowship in Infectious Diseases (C. Henry Kempe-mentor) at the University of Colorado (1961-62). In 1969 he became the founding department head of Pediatrics at the new medical school at the University of Arizona, remaining in that position for the next 16 years. He then successively became Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (1985-1988) and Acting Dean (1988-1989) there. For the next 4 years he was Dean of the School of Medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans, and in 1993 became Chancellor of the Univeristy of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, resigning that position after 5 years in early 1998. Throughout his career he has been a faculty member in the various Departments of Pediatrics.

Dr. Fulginiti's honors, awards and officerships include: AOA membership; research awards from the Philadelphia Pediatric Society and the Western Society for Pediatric Research; teaching awards from the University of Arizona Foundation, the Western Society for Pediatric Research, the student bodies of the Universities of Arizona and Tulane, and the Ambulatory Pediatric Society of America; alumni awards from Temple University and the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Colorado; a Markle Scholarship; a Fullbright Travel Scholarship; the Abraham Jacoby Award of the American Academy of Pediatrics; the J. St. Geme Award of the Federation of Pediatric Professional and Research Societies; and a Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has also been President of the Western Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society; member and Chair of the Academy of Pediatrics "Red Book" Committee (Committee on Infectious Diseases); member and Chair of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee of the US Public Health Service.

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