Kenneth A. Alexander, M.D., Ph.D., is chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Vice-Chair for Research at Nemours Children’s Hospital-Florida in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Alexander completed his medical training and earned his doctoral degree at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington, before moving to Boston, Massachusetts, for his pediatric residency at Boston Children’s Hospital. He Dr. Alexander then completed subspecialty training in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he served on the faculty for ten years. Dr. Alexander served as chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Chicago for nine years before relocating to Nemours Children’s Hospital in 2014.

Dr. Alexander’s clinical interests include neonatal infectious diseases and promoting immunization among underserved communities.  Dr. Alexander has a research laboratory at which his research team studies human papillomaviruses and Zika viruses.