OnCall+ Cold & Flu Consultant: Owen Hendley, M.D., University of Virginia Children's Hospital

— -- Dr. Owen Hendley is a professor of pediatric infectious disease at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital. His research interests include the origins of rhinovirus colds, sinusitis and otitis media.

He is a journal reviewer for Pediatrics, Journal of Pediatrics, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Pediatric Infection Control. He is affiliated with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, among others.

Hendley has published nearly 200 research articles on projects ranging from the reduction of respiratory syncytial virus among hospitalized premature infants, to the contamination of environmental surfaces during normal daily activities of hotel guests with rhinovirus colds.

Hendley has been with the University of Virginia Health System and Children's Hospital since 1970. Prior to 1970 he served as a research fellow at Harvard School of Public Health and Children's Medical Center. He completed his residency in pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center. He completed a research fellowship at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital in the Department of Pediatrics.

Hendley has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors during his career. Among them are the Marie Lebron Prize in Pediatrics from the University of Pennsylvania, where he attended medical school; the McLemore Birdsong Award for Excellence in Teaching from the University of Virginia Children's Hospital Department of Pediatrics; and the University of Virginia School of Medicine Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. Hendley is a paid consultant for the ABCNews.com OnCall+ Cold & Flu Center.