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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.