Chair
Mercy-St. Louis
Farrin A. Manian, MD, MPH, FACP, FSHEA, FIDSA
Dr. Manian is Chair of the Department of Medicine at Mercy Hospital-St. Louiis in St. Louis, Missouri.
Dr. Manian received his Masters of Science in Public Health-Epidemiology and M.D. degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honors Society. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical School in Nashville. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and Infectious Diseases Society of America. He is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has authored or coauthored over 100 scientific articles and book chapters. He is the author of the book, Mosby’s Curbside Clinician: Infectious Diseases, and was the first editor of APIC handbook of Infection Control. His publications have appeared in peer-reviewed scientific journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology and the American Journal of Infection Control. He has been voted as one of America’s “Top Doctors” in Infectious Diseases. His current research projects include SARS-CoV-2 conversion of hospitalized patients, epidemiology and clinical manifestations of Covid-19 in patients requiring hospitalization. He recently served as Core Educator Faculty in the Department of Medicine at Mass General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston. He is the creator of www.Pearls4Peers.com, a free open access educational site for curious clinicians.
Farrin A. Manian, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Medicine
Mercy Hospital-St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri, USA