Stephen G. Weber, MD, MPH

Dr. Stephen G. Weber is the Chief Medical Officer and Vice President for Clinical Effectiveness at the University of Chicago Medicine.  He is an Associate Professor in the Section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health.

Mary Hayden, MD

Mary Hayden, MD is a specialist in infectious diseases, professor of medicine (infectious diseases) and pathology, and director of the clinical microbiology laboratory at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. Dr. Hayden's research interests include prevention of healthcare-associated infections, especially those caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Trevor Van Schooneveld, MD

Dr. Trevor Van Schooneveld is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.  He is currently the chair of SHEA Journal Club committee and serves on the Publications committee.  Dr. Van Schooneveld is the Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at the Nebraska Medical Center and Associate Medical Director of the Department of Infection Control and Epidemiology.  

Deborah S. Yokoe, MD, MPH

Dr. Yokoe is the Hospital Epidemiologist and Medical Director of the Infection Control Department and a member of the Infectious Diseases Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

John A. Jernigan, M.D., M.S

John A. Jernigan, M.D., M.S. is currently Director of the Office of Prevention Research and Evaluation, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC), and Clinical Associate  Professor of Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases. He attended medical school at Vanderbilt University, where he also completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine, and served as Chief Medical Resident. Following his residency, he spent a year practicing medicine in East Africa, then returned to the United States to complete his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Virginia, where he also earned a Masters Degree in Epidemiology. He joined the faculty of Emory University in 1994, and became Hospital Epidemiologist at Emory University Hospital in 1995.

Louise M. Dembry, MD, MS, MBA

Dr. Louise Dembry is a member of the SHEA Board and the outgoing Treasurer.  She has served on the SHEA Board for the past three years and participated in the creation of the SHEA Education and Research Foundation (ERF) during that time.  She will continue to serve on the SHEA ERF Board for the next year.  Dr. Dembry joined SHEA in 1993 as an Infectious Diseases Fellow and has served on various SHEA committees and task forces including chairing the Publications Committee 2007-1010 and the Scientific Program for the 2004, participated in several review groups and served as faculty for the SHEA/CDC course for many years and the more recent HAI Regional Training program.

Kerri A Thom, MD, MS

Kerri A Thom, MD, MS, is an infectious disease physician and assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. She is also Associate Hospital Epidemiologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Thom's research interests include the epidemiology and transmission of multidrug-resistant gram negative pathogens, antimicrobial resistance and infection prevention.

William A. Rutala, Ph.D., M.P.H

Dr. Bill Rutala is a Professor for the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina's School of Medicine, and serves as the Director of Hospital Epidemiology, Occupational Health and Safety Program at the University of North Carolina Health Care System.  He is also Director and co-founder of the Statewide Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology at the UNC School of Medicine and a retired Colonel with the U.S. Army Reserve.

Dr. Tara Palmore

Dr. Palmore is an infectious diseases specialist and Deputy Hospital Epidemiologist at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. In her clinical role, she serves as an infectious diseases consultant in the Clinical Center, which has a large stem cell transplantation program and other categories of heavily immunosuppressed patients. Dr. Palmore did her undergraduate education at Harvard College and attended the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She completed internal medicine residency at the New York Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell and infectious diseases fellowship at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Sharmila Sengupta MD

Dr. Sengupta is a clinical microbiologist, who has been working in infection control and healthcare epidemiology for the last 18 years in India. Though the burden of multi-drug resistant pathogens are very high in India, healthcare epidemiology and infection control are relatively at a nascent stage.

Daniel J Morgan M.D.

Dr. Morgan was a founding member of the SHEA Research Network. In this role, he conducted a study examining the effect of CMS non-payment policy for CAUTIs that is in press at Clinical Infectious Diseases. He encourages those not members of the SHEA Research Network to Join (completing a short survey ).

Trish M. Perl, MD, MSc

In addition to serving as a Course Director for the Fellows Course on Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Control since its inception, Dr. Perl is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is Senior Epidemiologist for The Johns Hopkins Health System in Baltimore, Maryland and Florida.

Daniel Diekema

Dr. Daniel Diekema is the 2012 SHEA IDWeek Planning Committee Co-Chair, and is a Professor of Internal Medicine and Pathology, and Director of the Infectious Diseases Division at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. He also serves as associate director of the University of Iowa Hospital Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, and the associate hospital epidemiologist at University of Iowa Healthcare.

Sara Cosgrove

Sara E. Cosgrove, MD, MS, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Disease at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the program co-chair for the Antimicrobial Stewardship leader forum at the SHEA Spring 2012 Conference: Advancing Healthcare Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Stewardship.

Neil Fishman

Neil O. Fishman, MD, is Director of Infection Control and the Antimicrobial Management Program for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and the guest co-editor of the ICHE's dedicated issue on Antimicrobial Stewardship (April 2012).  He is Chair of the Board of Directors of the SHEA Education & Research Foundation. He is also an associate professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. His research focuses on outcome assessment and quality management issues in infectious diseases.

Arjun Srinivasan

Arjun Srinivasan, MD is a medical epidemiologist in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the guest co-editor of ICHE's dedicated issue on Antimicrobial Stewardship (released online on March 15, 2012).  In reference to this critically important special issue, Dr. Srinivasan says, "Improving the use of antibiotics is exactly the type of urgent public health challenge that I think SHEA members are best positioned to tackle."

Jan E. Patterson, MD, MS, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA, CPE, FACHE

SHEA is thrilled to welcome Jan Patterson, MD, MS, FSHEA as our 2012 President of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Patterson is currently Professor and Associate Dean for Quality and Lifelong Learning and also directs the Center for Patient Safety and Health Policy at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.

In Memorial: A Tribute to Judene Bartley

The healthcare epidemiology and infection prevention field lost one of its most knowledgeable and dedicated voices with the passing of Judene Bartley, MSc, MPH on December 26, 2011.

Suzanne Bradley, MD

Dr. Bradley has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology since 2007.  Her career in infection control began with a long-standing interest in the epidemiology of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections in nursing home residents.

Dr. David Henderson

This month, SHEA is pleased to focus our Member Spotlight on Dr. David Henderson, the General Planning Co-Chair for the 2012 Spring Conference, Advancing Healthcare Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Stewardship.  Dr. Henderson is deputy director for clinical care and associate director for quality assurance and hospital epidemiology at the NIH Clinical Center. He first came to NIH in 1979 as the hospital epidemiologist, a position he still holds.

Victoria J. Fraser, MD, FACP

Past Lectureship Winner

Victoria J. Fraser, MD, FACP is the Co-Director Infectious Diseases Division at Washington University School of Medicine and a J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine. Dr. Fraser is the 2011 SHEA Lectureship Recipient. She served as SHEA President in 2007, and has also been the recipient of the Mentor Scholar Award (2009) and Investigator Award (2001).

Dr. John McGowan, Jr.

Past President

Dr. John McGowan, Jr. is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, and Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases). He also serves as Director of the MD/MPH Dual Degree Program at Emory, and Assistant Director of the Masters of Science in Clinical Research Program in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Emory University. He is an Investigator for the Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). Dr. McGowan received his MD from Harvard University. His main research interest is the epidemiology and molecular microbiology of antibacterial drug resistance and its relationship to antimicrobial use.

Dr. McGowan is a founding member of SHEA and the first SHEA President (1981). He was the Lectureship Awardee in 1998.

Steven M. Gordon, MD, FACP

Dr. Gordon, President of SHEA, is the Chairman of the Department of Infectious Disease and a Staff Member in the Transplantation Center at the Cleveland Clinic.

His specific areas of interests include management and treatment of infective endocarditis and cardiac device infections. Among ongoing projects, he has been focusing on antimicrobial stewardship in patients discharged on parenteral antibiotics, use of molecular methods in the management of infective endocarditis, and utility of interferon gamma release assay testing in healthcare workers.