H. Dele Davies is senior vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean for graduate studies at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.  He holds an M.D. and a MS in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto, Canada, and a Master in Health Care Management Degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is specialty trained in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases from the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.

Davies areas of research helped establish the population-based rates, epidemiologic risk factors, serotypes and major virulence factors for Group A and B streptococcal infections in Canada.  His work has been supported by over $20 million in funding either as PI or co-investigator and he has over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Davies serves as a member of the National Biodefense Science Board and cochairs its Readiness and Resilience Working Group.  He is also a board member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Children and Disasters and founding chair of the Association of Academic Health Centers Chief Academic Officers Group. Davies previously served as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Centers for Infectious Diseases of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Davies has received numerous prestigious awards during his career including the Mo-Watanabe Distinguished Faculty Award at the University of Calgary (twice), The Dean’s Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award for International Impact, University of Toronto Temerty Fac. of Med and the William B. Weil Jr. Endowed Distinguished Pediatric Faculty Award of the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University.  Since 2006, he has been recognized annually as a member of the Best Doctors of America.  He is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honors Society, the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society.