The Peditraic Respiratory Care Initiative (PRCI) Education Council. The goal of PRCI is to advance the clinician's awareness of the importance of care and management of pediatric respiratory patients.

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John P. DeVincenzo III, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Sciences
University of Tennessee School of Medicine
Memphis, Tennessee

John P. DeVincenzo III, MD, is an associate professor of pediatrics and molecular sciences in the division of infectious diseases at the University of Tennessee School of Medicine in Memphis and an associate professor in the University’s School of Graduate Health Sciences in the department of molecular sciences. Dr DeVincenzo is clinical director of the Diagnostic Virology Laboratory at LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center in Memphis and director of the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory at Methodist/LeBonheur Hospitals in Memphis.

Dr DeVincenzo runs an NIH supported laboratory studying immunogenetics and the pathogenesis of respiratory syncytial virus. He is a frequent visiting professor and invited lecturer, as well as the author of over 90 journal articles and abstracts on the subject of pediatric viral diseases. Dr DeVincenzo is a member and fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and the Society for Pediatric Research.

Dr DeVincenzo attended Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. He completed an internship and a residency in pediatrics at the Center for Health Sciences at the University of California in Los Angeles. Dr DeVincenzo continued his postgraduate work at the School of Tropical Medicine at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, DC, and at the New England Epidemiology Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr DeVincenzo completed a clinical fellowship in infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and worked as a research associate in the laboratory of infectious diseases at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Dr DeVincenzo is board certified in pediatrics, including a subcertification in infectious diseases.

Relevant Financial Relationships

Dr DeVincenzo indicated that he receives grant/research support and is a retained consultant for Arrow Pharmaceuticals Inc, Becton, Dickinson and Company, and MedImmune, Inc.; grant/research support from Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and is a retained consultant for Tibotec, Inc.

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