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Item details

Date

June 12, 2025 7:00PM

Location

Jemison Concert Hall

Description

Thank You Books and the Alys Stephens Center are thrilled to welcome author John Green to discuss his instant #1 bestseller Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, in conversation with Dr. David Kimberlin of Children's of Alabama. The pair will discuss the book, explore its origin and findings, and answer audience questions. This event is ticketed, and all tickets include an autographed copy of Everything Is Tuberculosis.

A selection of John Green's books will be on sale at the event, but there will be no signing--books will be presigned. 

A portion of each ticket will be donated to Children's of Alabama.

John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of books including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, The Anthropocene Reviewed, and Everything is Tuberculosis. With his brother, Hank, John has co-created many online video projects, including Vlogbrothers and the educational channel Crash Course. John serves on the board of trustees for the global health nonprofit Partners In Health and spoke at the United Nations HighLevel Meeting on the Fight to End Tuberculosis. John lives with his family in Indianapolis. You can visit him online at johngreenbooks.com or join the TB Fighters working to end tuberculosis at tbfighters.org.

Dr. David Kimberlin holds the Sergio Stagno Endowed Chair in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), where he is Associate Vice President for Clinical Trials. Within the UAB Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Kimberlin is Vice Chair for Clinical and Translational Research and Co-Director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Dr. Kimberlin is Editor of the 2024 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (Red Book). He also was Editor of the 2021, 2018, and 2015 editions. Dr. Kimberlin also is Editor-in-Chief of Long’s Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, which is the leading texbook in the field. From 2007-2025, Dr. Kimberlin served as the AAP Red Book liaison to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). He also is the Principal Investigator for the Collaborative Antiviral Study Group (CASG), now known as the Congenital and Perinatal Infections Consortium (CPIC). Funded continuously by NIH/NIAID/DMID since the early 1970s, the CASG/CPIC is an international network of pediatric academic medical centers that evaluates antiviral therapeutics in rare diseases with a large unmet medical need, including neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections, congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease, congenital Zika syndrome, neonatal and infantile influenza infection, and neonatal enteroviral sepsis syndrome. It is comprised of approximately 40 study sites across the United States and the United Kingdom. Dr. Kimberlin is a Past-President of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and in 2022 received the Walter T. Hughes Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Distinguished Physician Award. In 2016 he received the Ronald McDonald House Charities 2016 Medical Award of Excellence. He has received numerous education awards.

Notes

• All tickets include an autographed copy of Everything Is Tuberculosis.
• A portion of each ticket will be donated to Children's of Alabama.
• This event is general admission seating.
• Tickets valid for performance date and time only.
• No refunds. Exchanges subject to availability.
• Late seating at discretion of house management.
• All performances are subject to change.