2026 LaMontagne Lecture & Symposium with Keith Klugman

Dr. Keith Klugman, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Pneumonia Program at the Gates Foundation, will be the keynote speaker at the 2026 John Ring LaMontagne Annual Keynote Lecture and Symposium. The title of his lecture is “Novel Vaccines to Further Reduce Pneumonia Mortality in Children.”

As Director of the Pneumonia Program, Dr. Klugman leads the Gates Foundation’s work to reduce deaths from pneumonia, neonatal sepsis and meningitis in children.

Dr. Klugman has made major contributions in the field of pneumococcal research, including antimicrobial resistance. His work demonstrating pneumococcal conjugate vaccine efficacy in the developing world has led to interventions that have saved millions of lives, especially in Africa. He has published more than 600 scientific papers which have been cited more than 30,000 times to date.

A reception will follow the lecture.