Director, Office of Antibiotic Stewardship
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA, United States
Dr. Lauri Hicks is the director for the Office of Antibiotic Stewardship in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She is also a Captain in the U.S. Public Health Service with over 16 years of experience at CDC. Dr. Hicks attended medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her internal medicine and chief medicine residencies at the University of Connecticut. This was followed by a 2-year position as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at CDC in the Respiratory Diseases Branch. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship in infectious diseases at Brown University, Dr. Hicks returned to CDC. Her areas of expertise include antibiotic stewardship, respiratory diseases, outbreak response, and antibiotic resistance. Dr. Hicks has published over 150 scientific publications and has led national antibiotic stewardship policy and guideline development.
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