Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Resident, Internal Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine 2008 - 2011
  • M.D., University of Virginia 2008
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Medicine 2013 - 2015
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Model-Driven Surveillance and Intervention Evaluation in Highly Stochastic Healthcare Settings awarded by Washington State University 2017 - 2019
  • Epicenter IV: Harvard Pilgrim-UCI Center for HAI Prevention (CLUSTER and Sepsis) awarded by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. 2016 - 2019
  • The Impact of Multi-Drug Resistant Gram Negative Infections in Community Hospitals awarded by Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2014 - 2016
  • A Four-arm Prospective, Multicenter Study to Assess the Clinical Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Feasibility of Enhanced Ro awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011 - 2016
  • Evaluation of the Efficacy of Personal Protective Equipment and Antiseptic Impregnated Clothing in Reducing Exposure of Health Care Personnel to Acquisition and Transmission of Viral and Bacterial Pat awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2015 - 2016
  • Cohort Study of Patients at Risk for C. diff Infections awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011 - 2012
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Seidelman, JL, Wallace, RJ, Iakhiaeva, E, Vasireddy, R, Brown-Elliott, BA, McKnight, C, Chen, LF, Smith, T, and Lewis, SS. "Mycobacterium avium pseudo-outbreak associated with an outpatient bronchoscopy clinic: Lessons for reprocessing." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 40, no. 1 (January 2019): 106-108.  Full Text
    • Lewis, SS, Smith, BA, Sickbert-Bennett, EE, and Weber, DJ. "Water as a source for colonization and infection with multidrug-resistant pathogens: Focus on sinks." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 39, no. 12 (December 2018): 1463-1466.  Full Text
    • Seidelman, J, and Lewis, SS. "Neurosurgical Device-Related Infections." Infectious Disease Clinics of North America 32, no. 4 (December 2018): 861-876. (Review)  Full Text
    • Anderson, DJ, Moehring, RW, Weber, DJ, Lewis, SS, Chen, LF, Schwab, JC, Becherer, P, Blocker, M, Triplett, PF, Knelson, LP, Lokhnygina, Y, Rutala, WA, Sexton, DJ, and CDC Prevention Epicenters Program, . "Effectiveness of targeted enhanced terminal room disinfection on hospital-wide acquisition and infection with multidrug-resistant organisms and Clostridium difficile: a secondary analysis of a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial with crossover design (BETR Disinfection)." The Lancet. Infectious Diseases 18, no. 8 (August 2018): 845-853.  Full Text
    • Philo, SE, Anderson, BD, Costa, SF, Henshaw, N, Lewis, SS, Reynolds, JM, Jayakumar, J, Su, YCF, and Gray, GC. "Adenovirus Type 21 Outbreak Among Lung Transplant Patients at a Large Tertiary Care Hospital." Open Forum Infectious Diseases 5, no. 8 (August 2018): ofy188-null.  Full Text
    • Seidelman, J, Baker, AW, Anderson, DJ, Sexton, DJ, and Lewis, SS. "Do Periarticular Joint Infections Present an Increase in Infection Risk?." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 39, no. 7 (July 2018): 890-891.  Full Text
    • Hostler, CJ, Moehring, RW, Ashley, ESD, Johnson, M, Davis, A, Lewis, SS, Sexton, DJ, Anderson, DJ, and CDC Prevention Epicenters Program, . "Feasibility and Value of Developing a Regional Antibiogram for Community Hospitals." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 39, no. 6 (June 2018): 718-722.  Full Text
    • Moehring, RW, Dodds Ashley, ES, Ren, X, Lokhnygina, Y, Baker, AW, Jones, TM, Lewis, SS, Sexton, DJ, Anderson, DJ, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epicenters Program, . "Denominator Matters in Estimating Antimicrobial Use: A Comparison of Days Present and Patient Days." Infection control and hospital epidemiology (March 26, 2018): 1-4.  Full Text
    • Seidelman, JL, Lewis, SS, Huslage, K, Strittholt, N, Vereen, S, Sova, C, Taylor, B, Bonadonna, D, Ranney, D, Nag, U, Daneshmand, M, Anderson, DJ, Sexton, DJ, and Smith, BA. "To Be a CLABSI or Not to Be a CLABSI-That is the Question: The Epidemiology of BSI in a Large ECMO Population." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 39, no. 3 (March 2018): 362-365.  Full Text
    • Anderson, DJ, Knelson, LP, Moehring, RW, Lewis, SS, Weber, DJ, Chen, LF, Triplett, PF, Blocker, M, Cooney, RM, Schwab, JC, Lokhnygina, Y, Rutala, WA, Sexton, DJ, and CDC Prevention Epicenters Program, . "Implementation Lessons Learned From the Benefits of Enhanced Terminal Room (BETR) Disinfection Study: Process and Perceptions of Enhanced Disinfection with Ultraviolet Disinfection Devices." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 39, no. 2 (February 2018): 157-163.  Full Text
    • Knelson, LP, Ramadanovic, GK, Chen, LF, Moehring, RW, Lewis, SS, Rutala, WA, Weber, DJ, Sexton, DJ, Anderson, DJ, and CDC Prevention EpiCenters Program, . "Self-monitoring by Environmental Services May Not Accurately Measure Thoroughness of Hospital Room Cleaning." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 38, no. 11 (November 2017): 1371-1373.  Full Text
    • Anderson, DJ, Addison, R, Lokhnygina, Y, Warren, B, Sharma-Kuinkel, B, Rojas, LJ, Rudin, SD, Lewis, SS, Moehring, RW, Weber, DJ, Rutala, WA, Bonomo, RA, Fowler, VG, Sexton, DJ, and CDC Prevention Epicenters Program, . "The Antimicrobial Scrub Contamination and Transmission (ASCOT) Trial: A Three-Arm, Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial With Crossover Design to Determine the Efficacy of Antimicrobial-Impregnated Scrubs in Preventing Healthcare Provider Contamination." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 38, no. 10 (October 2017): 1147-1154.  Full Text
    • Seidelman, J, Dicks, KV, Durkin, MJ, Baker, AW, Moehring, RW, Anderson, DJ, Sexton, DJ, Chen, LF, and Lewis, SS. "Using Clinical Scenarios to Understand Preventability of Clostridium difficile Infections by Inpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Programs." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 38, no. 6 (June 2017): 747-749.  Full Text
    • Baker, AW, Lewis, SS, Alexander, BD, Chen, LF, Wallace, RJ, Brown-Elliott, BA, Isaacs, PJ, Pickett, LC, Patel, CB, Smith, PK, Reynolds, JM, Engel, J, Wolfe, CR, Milano, CA, Schroder, JN, Davis, RD, Hartwig, MG, Stout, JE, Strittholt, N, Maziarz, EK, Saullo, JH, Hazen, KC, Walczak, RJ, Vasireddy, R, Vasireddy, S, McKnight, CM, Anderson, DJ, and Sexton, DJ. "Two-Phase Hospital-Associated Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus: Investigation and Mitigation." Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 64, no. 7 (April 2017): 902-911.  Full Text
    • Anderson, DJ, Chen, LF, Weber, DJ, Moehring, RW, Lewis, SS, Triplett, PF, Blocker, M, Becherer, P, Schwab, JC, Knelson, LP, Lokhnygina, Y, Rutala, WA, Kanamori, H, Gergen, MF, Sexton, DJ, and CDC Prevention Epicenters Program, . "Enhanced terminal room disinfection and acquisition and infection caused by multidrug-resistant organisms and Clostridium difficile (the Benefits of Enhanced Terminal Room Disinfection study): a cluster-randomised, multicentre, crossover study." Lancet (London, England) 389, no. 10071 (February 2017): 805-814.  Full Text
    • Anderson, DJ, Rojas, LF, Watson, S, Knelson, LP, Pruitt, S, Lewis, SS, Moehring, RW, Sickbert Bennett, EE, Weber, DJ, Chen, LF, Sexton, DJ, and CDC Prevention Epicenters Program, . "Identification of novel risk factors for community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection using spatial statistics and geographic information system analyses." PLoS ONE 12, no. 5 (January 2017): e0176285-.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Dicks, KV, Anderson, DJ, Baker, AW, Sexton, DJ, and Lewis, SS. "Clinical Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization Related to Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Infections in Community Hospitals." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 38, no. 1 (January 2017): 31-38.  Full Text
    • Dicks, KV, Lofgren, E, Lewis, SS, Moehring, RW, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "A Multicenter Pragmatic Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing in Community Hospital Intensive Care Units." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 37, no. 7 (July 2016): 791-797.  Full Text
    • Baker, AW, Dicks, KV, Durkin, MJ, Weber, DJ, Lewis, SS, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "Epidemiology of Surgical Site Infection in a Community Hospital Network." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 37, no. 5 (May 2016): 519-526.  Full Text
    • Dicks, KV, Baker, AW, Durkin, MJ, Anderson, DJ, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Sexton, DJ, Weber, DJ, and Lewis, SS. "Short Operative Duration and Surgical Site Infection Risk in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Procedures." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 36, no. 12 (December 2015): 1431-1436.  Full Text
    • Durkin, MJ, Dicks, KV, Baker, AW, Lewis, SS, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "Seasonal Variation of Common Surgical Site Infections: Does Season Matter?." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 36, no. 9 (September 2015): 1011-1016.  Full Text
    • Durkin, MJ, Dicks, KV, Baker, AW, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Sexton, DJ, Lewis, SS, and Anderson, DJ. "Postoperative infection in spine surgery: does the month matter?." Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine 23, no. 1 (July 2015): 128-134.  Full Text
    • Dicks, KV, Baker, AW, Durkin, MJ, Lewis, SS, Moehring, RW, Anderson, DJ, Sexton, DJ, and Chen, LF. "The potential impact of excluding funguria from the surveillance definition of catheter-associated urinary tract infection." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 36, no. 4 (April 2015): 467-469.  Full Text
    • Lewis, SS, Dicks, KV, Chen, LF, Bolognesi, MP, Anderson, DJ, Sexton, DJ, and Moehring, RW. "Delay in diagnosis of invasive surgical site infections following knee arthroplasty versus hip arthroplasty." Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 60, no. 7 (April 2015): 990-996.  Full Text
    • Durkin, MJ, Baker, AW, Dicks, KV, Lewis, SS, Chen, LF, Anderson, DJ, Sexton, DJ, and Moehring, RW. "A comparison between National Healthcare Safety Network laboratory-identified event reporting versus traditional surveillance for Clostridium difficile infection." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 36, no. 2 (February 2015): 125-131.  Full Text
    • Lewis, SS, Walker, VJ, Lee, MS, Chen, L, Moehring, RW, Cox, CE, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia in community hospitals." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 35, no. 12 (December 2014): 1452-1457.  Full Text
    • Baker, AW, Durkin, MJ, Dicks, KV, Lewis, SS, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection surveillance: National Healthcare Safety Network's laboratory-identified event reporting versus traditional laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection surveillance." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 35, no. 10 (October 2014): 1286-1289.  Full Text
    • Lewis, SS, Cox, GM, and Stout, JE. "Clinical utility of indium 111-labeled white blood cell scintigraphy for evaluation of suspected infection." Open Forum Infectious Diseases 1, no. 2 (September 17, 2014): ofu089-null.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Thaden, JT, Lewis, SS, Hazen, KC, Huslage, K, Fowler, VG, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Jones, CD, Moore, ZS, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "Rising rates of carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae in community hospitals: a mixed-methods review of epidemiology and microbiology practices in a network of community hospitals in the southeastern United States." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 35, no. 8 (August 2014): 978-983.  Full Text
    • Dicks, KV, Lewis, SS, Durkin, MJ, Baker, AW, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "Surveying the surveillance: surgical site infections excluded by the January 2013 updated surveillance definitions." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 35, no. 5 (May 2014): 570-573.  Full Text
    • Moehring, RW, Lewis, SS, Isaacs, PJ, Schell, WA, Thomann, WR, Althaus, MM, Hazen, KC, Dicks, KV, Lipuma, JJ, Chen, LF, and Sexton, DJ. "Outbreak of bacteremia due to Burkholderia contaminans linked to intravenous fentanyl from an institutional compounding pharmacy." Jama Internal Medicine 174, no. 4 (April 2014): 606-612.  Full Text
    • Lewis, SS, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "Assessing the relative burden of hospital-acquired infections in a network of community hospitals." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 34, no. 11 (November 2013): 1229-1230.  Full Text
    • Lewis, SS, Knelson, LP, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "Comparison of non-intensive care unit (ICU) versus ICU rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infection in community hospitals." Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 34, no. 7 (July 2013): 744-747.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Lewis, SS, Moehring, RW, Anderson, DJ, Sexton, DJ, and Chen, LF. "Increasing rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in academic hospitals: a result of active surveillance?." Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 34, no. 1 (January 2013): 105-106. (Letter)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Lewis, SS, and Anderson, DJ. "Treatment of Clostridium difficile infection: recent trial results." Clinical investigation 3, no. 9 (January 2013): 875-886.  Full Text
    • Lewis, SS, and Sexton, DJ. "Metastatic complications of bloodstream infections in hemodialysis patients." Semin Dial 26, no. 1 (January 2013): 47-53. (Review)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Lewis, SS, and Sexton, DJ. "Metastatic Complications of Bloodstream Infections in Hemodialysis Patients." Seminars in Dialysis 26, no. 1 (2013): 47-53.  Full Text
    • Boggan, JC, Baker, AW, Lewis, SS, Dicks, KV, Durkin, MJ, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Knelson, LP, Hegland, DD, and Anderson, DJ. "An Automated Surveillance Strategy to Identify Infectious Complications Following Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Procedures(Published online)." Open Forum Infectious Diseases : ofv128-ofv128.  Full Text  Open Access Copy

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