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Arjun Srinivasan, MD
Areas of Expertise
- Acinetobacter infections
- Drug Resistant Pathogens
- Healthcare Associated Infections
Response Team Leader, Division of Healthcare Quality and Promotion, NCPDCID
Arjun Srinivasan, MD, is an epidemiologist in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at CDC. This division seeks to protect patients and healthcare personnel and promotes safety and quality in healthcare delivery systems.
He is the Response Team leader for the division, supervising the investigation and prevention of adverse events related to healthcare delivery and antimicrobial resistance. He has supervised more than 20 successful field investigations, five of which led to national recalls of medical products or medications. Dr. Srinivasan′s expertise was specifically sought by the U.S. Army to help investigate and control an outbreak of Acinetobacter infections among service members injured in Iraq/Afghanistan.
Before coming to CDC he was as Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Infectious Diseases Division at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he was the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Management Program and the associate hospital epidemiologist. His primary responsibilities include investigation of outbreaks that occur in healthcare facilities and policy and research work related to these outbreaks. His areas of concentration include outbreak investigations, infection control, multi-drug resistant gram negative pathogens, device related infections and infections related to organ and tissue transplantation. Dr. Srinivasan has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals on his research in healthcare epidemiology, infection control and antimicrobial use and resistance. He is a member of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. He is board certified in both internal medicine and infectious diseases.
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