Infectious Disease Physician
Emory University School of Medicine
I completed my ID fellowship at Tufts Medical Center and subsequently joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During EIS, I led an investigation linking duodenoscopes with transmission of multi-drug resistant organisms (MDRO), resulting in national policy changes regarding preprocessing of duodenoscopes. In 2015, I joined the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at CDC as a medical officer and focused on sepsis epidemiology and surveillance of multi-drug resistant organisms. I developed and led national epidemiology assessments of sepsis to identify risk factors for mortality. I also served as the CDC lead for a working group to establish innovative sepsis surveillance and was the principle author for national guidance for public health response to contain novel or targeted MDROs. In 2020, I joined the Atlanta VA Healthcare System as a staff ID physician and hospital epidemiologist. My clinical and research interests include hospital epidemiology, healthcare-associated infections, sepsis and antimicrobial resistance.