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Infection Preventionist
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Rachel Weber, MS, CIC (she/her) is a certified Infection Preventionist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) in Chicago, Illinois. Since 2018, Rachel has provided infection prevention coverage to the neonatal intensive care unit, labor and delivery, obstetrical triage, and pulmonary medicine units. Rachel's areas of interest include high consequence emerging infectious diseases (HCIDs), PPE, outbreak investigations, respiratory virus transmission, and neonatal infection prevention. Rachel received her Master of Science in Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2018 where her thesis was entitled “Environmental and Personal Protective Equipment Contamination During Simulated Healthcare Activities.”