Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Medicine
·
2021 - Present
Medicine, Infectious Diseases,
Medicine
Recent Publications
Implementation of Bundled Interventions to Reduce Surgical Site Infections in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Cardiothoracic Surgery: A Quality Improvement Project.
Journal Article AORN J · February 2025 Pediatric patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery are at increased risk for health care-associated infections, especially surgical site infections (SSIs). Delayed sternal closures are associated with prolonged lengths of stay and contribute to infection ... Full text Link to item CiteA cluster of three extrapulmonary Mycobacterium abscessus infections linked to well-maintained water-based heater-cooler devices.
Journal Article Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol · May 2024 BACKGROUND: Various water-based heater-cooler devices (HCDs) have been implicated in nontuberculous mycobacteria outbreaks. Ongoing rigorous surveillance for healthcare-associated M. abscessus (HA-Mab) put in place following a prior institutional outbreak ... Full text Link to item CiteImplementation of a diagnostic stewardship intervention to improve blood-culture utilization in 2 surgical ICUs: Time for a blood-culture change.
Journal Article Infection control and hospital epidemiology · April 2024 ObjectiveWe compared the number of blood-culture events before and after the introduction of a blood-culture algorithm and provider feedback. Secondary objectives were the comparison of blood-culture positivity and negative safety signals before a ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Model-Driven Surveillance and Intervention Evaluation in Highly Stochastic Healthcare Settings
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Washington State University · 2017 - 2020Epicenter IV: Harvard Pilgrim-UCI Center for HAI Prevention (CLUSTER and Sepsis)
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. · 2016 - 2020The Impact of Multi-Drug Resistant Gram Negative Infections in Community Hospitals
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · 2014 - 2016View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Virginia ·
2008
M.D.