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Introduction
Edwards[1] is a professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She teaches pediatrics in the devision is infectious diseases.

Edwards is currently a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and has been active in the leadership of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

Throughout Edwards career she has evaluated vaccines. She looked at how effective they were and how safe they were. Edwards is also vice-chair for clinical research.

Early Life and Education
Edwards graduated from University of Iowa College of Medicine medical school in 1973. She then completed her pediatric residency and infectious disease fellowship at Northwestern University. Following that she continued postdoctoral training in Immunology at Rush Medical School in Chicago, IL. Edwards joined the Vanderbilt Vaccine Program in 1980 and has conducted many pivotal vaccine studies since that time.

Career and Research
Edwards is known to be an expert in vaccinology, with so many publications in the fields of pertussis, pneumococcus, and influenza. Her work mostly focuses on researching vaccines to make sure they are not infecting adults and children and giving them harmful diseases. In the past, Edwards has don't trials of influenza vaccine and has coordinated multicenter trials of H. influenza, type b, B. pertussis, Streptococcus pneumoniae and vaccina vaccines. More recently she has been working on studying dose sparing strategies for influenza vaccine and avian Influenza vaccines. In addition to that Edwards is conducting active population-based surveillance. This is so she and her team can monitor the impact of new vaccines on disease burden.

Grants, Awards and Honors
In 2006, she received the IDSA Mentor Award for her exceptional mentoring. Next, in in 2014 Edwards received the Maureen Andrews Mentoring Award from the Society for Pediatric Research. In 2008 she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2016 she got the Charles Mérieux Vaccinology Award from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. In 2018 she was awarded the Maxwell Finland award - that will be later explained - for Scientific Accomplishments from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Her most recent award was in 2019 when she received the Frank Morriss Leadership Award in Pediatrics.

Edwards has received funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH). With this funding she has evaluated the influenza vaccine in around 3,000 children and adults immunized each year for 5 years. Later she receive additional funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Edwards received not one, but two grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)[2]. With these she investigated the safety and effectiveness of routine vaccination.

John Howland Award

Edwards received the American Pediatric Society's (APS)[3] 2020 John Howland Award. This award is the highest honor bestowed by the APS. It signifies the society's recognition of Edwards' significant contributions to advancing child health and the profession of pediatrics.

Personal Life
Edwards answers the question: "Who do you admire most, and why?" by saying, "My husband of nearly 48 years who has supported my work, listened to my challenges, shared parenthood and grandparenthood of our four children and seven grandchildren, and who is my best friend and confidant. I could never have accomplished my successes without him."

Public Engagement
Edwards volunteered at the ABP from 2007 to 2014 as a member of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Subboard and the Conflict of Interest Committee. She is certified by the ABP in General Pediatrics.

Edwards, for the last decade, has led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded Center for Immunization Safety Assessment (CISA) site at Vanderbilt. Here Edwards and her colleagues assess different events associated with vaccines in subjects of all ages. Edwards' was the primary investigator for the NIH-funded Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEU) contract. She has been funded by the NIH and CDC for decades repeatedly.