Biosketch

Dr. Naomi O’Grady is a senior staff physician in the Clinical Center’s Critical Care Medicine Department and the medical director of the CC’s Vascular Access and Conscious Sedation Services. She also is an attending physician with the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Department of the Children’s National Medical Center and an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

She obtained her undergraduate degree from University of Michigan and her medical degree at Ohio State University, then completed fellowships with NIH, and Johns Hopkins University, before returning to NIH in 1999.

Her research focuses on strategies to reduce the incidence of antimicrobial resistant pathogens in the ICU, and catheter-related blood stream infections.

Dr. O’Grady is currently a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Subspecialty Test Committee on Critical Care Medicine, and has served on the institutional review board of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Disaster Planning and Response Task Force of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

Honors and Awards

Society of Critical Care Medicine Presidential Citation, 2002, 2000, 1997; Fellow’s Award for Research Excellence, 1998; USPHS Achievement Medal,1998; Infectious Disease Society of America Kass Fellowship,1992; National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Research Fellowship,1988; Samuel J. Roessler Research Scholarship, 1987

Selected Publications

BOOKS/BOOK CHAPTERS

O’Grady NP, Masur H. Antibacterial therapy in the intensive care unit. In: Parrillo (ed), Current Therapy in Critical Care Medicine, Third edition, St. Louis, Missouri: Mosby Yearbook. 1997; 289-295

O’Grady NP, Suffredini AF. Pathophysiologic responses to endotoxin in man. In: Braude, Morrison, Opal, and Vogel (eds), Endotoxin in Man. Third edition, New York, New York: Marcel Decker. 1998; section XII, Chapter 61

Guillet-Agrawal A, O’Grady NP. Biologic agents and syndromes in: Fundamentals of Disaster Management. Society of Critical Care Medicine. 2003

O’Grady and Pittet: Catheter-Related Infections in the Critically Ill. Boston, MA: Kluwer 2004

O’Grady NP. Novel strategies for preventing catheter-related infections in the intensive care unit. In: O’Grady and Pittet (eds)Catheter-Related Infections in the Critically Ill. Boston, MA: Kluwer 2004

Gutierrez D, O’Grady NP. Central venous access devices. In: Abraham, Allegra and Gulley (eds) Bethesda Handbook of Clinical Oncology. Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins 2005

O’Grady NP. Managing and preventing catheter-related infections in oncology patients in: The Hematology-Oncology Sourcebook. Boston, MA McGraw-Hill In Press

JOURNAL ARTICLES

O’Grady NP, Gerberding JL, Weinstein RA, Masur H. Patient safety and the science of prevention: The time for implementing the guidelines for the prevention of catheter related infection is now. Crit Care Med 2003 Jan;31(1):291-2

Miller DL, O'Grady NP. Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-related Infections: Recommendations Relevant to Interventional Radiology. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2003 Feb;14(2):133-6

Haley M, Retter AS, Fowler D, Gea-Banacloche J, O’Grady NP. The role for intravenous immunoglobulin for treatment of West Nile virus encephalitis. Clin Infect Dis. 2003 Sep 15;37(6):e88-90. Epub 2003 Aug 27

O’Grady NP. On the road to avoiding adverse events: educational programs pave the way. Crit Care Med 2003Jul;31(7):2077-8

Nasraway S, Shorr A, O’Grady NP, Camarrata S. Linezolid Does Not Increase the Risk of Thrombocytopenia in Patients with Nosocomial Pneumonia: Comparative Analysis of Linezolid and Vancomycin. Clin Infect Dis. 2003 Dec 15;37(12):1609-16

Schorr A, Susla G, O’Grady NP. Pulmonary infiltrates in the non-HIV infected immunocompromised patient: etiologies, diagnostic strategies, and outcomes. Chest 2004 Jan; 125(1):260-71

O’Grady NP, Dezfulian C. The femoral site as first choice for intravascular catheters? Not so fast. Crit Care Med 2005 Jan;33(1):234-5

Salgado CD, O’Grady NP, Farr BT. Strategies for control of antimicrobial resistance in intensive care. Crit Care Med 2005 Sept;33 (10): 1864-78

O’Grady NP. Review: paired quantitative blood cultures most accurately detect intravascular device-related bloodstream infection. ACP J Club 2005 Nov-Dec; 143(3):77

Prasad R, Quezado Z, St. Andre A, O’Grady NP. Fires in the Operating Room: Awareness is the key to prevention. Anesth Analg 2006 Jan; 102(1):172-4

Huskins WC, O’Grady NP, Samore M, Wallace D, Goldmann DA, Pappas PG. Design and methodology of the strategies to reduce transmission of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in intensive care units (STAR-ICU) trial. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 Feb;28(2):245-6.

O’Grady NP, Barie PJ, Bartlett JB, Bleck T, Carroll K, Kalil AC, Linden P, Maki DJ, Neirman D, Pasculle W, Masur H. 2007 Update: Practice guidelines for evaluating new fever in critically ill adult patients. (submitted)