Dr. Polack is a pediatric infectious disease doctor who graduated with honors from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires in 1990. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at the French Hospital of Buenos Aires before continuing his professional training in the United States, where he was a Pediatrics resident at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. He then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in the division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
After serving as a professor at Johns Hopkins and Vanderbilt University for 15 years, he returned to his home country to establish the INFANT Foundation and contribute to the development of science. As the director of the Foundation, he has published over 130 manuscripts in high-impact journals, including ten in The New England Journal of Medicine, eight in The Lancet, and five in Nature Medicine.
He was the lead author of the groundbreaking manuscript published in the NEJM in 2020 that demonstrated the efficacy of the Pfizer mRNA coronavirus vaccine. He has received recognition from prestigious institutions, including the Young Investigator Award and the E. Mead Johnson Award for excellence in research from the Society for Pediatric Research in the United States. Additionally, he was honored as an Outstanding Personality in Sciences by the City of Buenos Aires.