Thank You Books presents bestselling author John Green

Thank You Books is beyond thrilled to welcome author John Green to UAB’s Alys Stephens Center 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.

Please note that this event will take place at the Jemison Concert Hall of the Alys Stephens Center. A selection of John Green’s books will be on sale at the event, but there will be no signing–books will be presigned.

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW! Visit our site to purchase. 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), and is also Editor-in-Chief of Long’s Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, which is the leading texbook in the field. He also is the Principal Investigator for the Collaborative Antiviral Study Group (CASG), now known as the Congenital and Perinatal Infections Consortium (CPIC), which 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.