Lab Director
Duke University School of Medicine
Bobby G Warren, MPS, is the lab director of the Disinfection, Resistance and Transmission Epidemiology (DiRTE) lab housed in the Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention (DCASIP) and an instructor of research mentorship at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. His research focuses on understanding transmission epidemiology of clinically relevant pathogens to mitigate human infections. To date, his research has focused on this goal through two lines of investigation: contamination in the medical environment and novel disinfectants and disinfection strategies. Mr. Warren has developed a credible track record of experience establishing baseline contamination levels of the healthcare environment, evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of investigational disinfectant technologies, and optimizing and applying novel sampling and species identification strategies. Over the last eight years, he has led the lab-based research for the Duke-UNC Prevention Epicenters Program through several important collaborative and multicenter studies.