Friday Conference: Increasing Burden of Selected Infectious Diseases–UNC Hospitals, NC and US

Dr. David Jay Weber is currently the Charles Addison and Elizabeth Ann Sanders Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Dr. Weber received his Medical Degree from the University of California, San Diego in 1977, a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Harvard University in 1985, and completed his medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1985. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, Critical Care Medicine, and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Weber serves as an Associate Chief Medical Office and Medical Director of Infection Prevention for the UNC Medical Center. Dr. Weber is currently the President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and the Associate Editor of Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. Dr. Weber has published more than 575 scientific papers in the peer-reviewed literature cited in PubMed and more than 700 total papers and chapters. Dr. Weber is an Expert Advisor for Clean Hospitals, Geneva. His research interests include the epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections, disinfection and sterilization, new and emerging infectious diseases, response to biothreats, nontuberculous mycobacteria, control of drug-resistant pathogens, immunization practices, zoonotic diseases, and epidemiology of tuberculosis.