Director of Hospital Epidemiology
UNC Medical Center
Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, MS, CIC, FSHEA is a Professor in the Department of Medicine-Infectious Diseases, an Associate Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology, and is the Director of Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship at the University of North Carolina Medical Center. Dr. Sickbert-Bennett’s research focuses on infectious disease surveillance, outbreak investigations, prevention of healthcare-associated infections, the role of the environment in healthcare- associated infections, hand hygiene and masking as an infection prevention strategy.