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Michael Lin, MD, MPH
Michael Lin, MD, MPH, is an infectious diseases physician and assistant professor of medicine at Rush University Medical Center. As a hospital epidemiologist and investigator, he has worked with the support of the CDC Prevention Epicenters Program to improve the surveillance of healthcare-acquired infections, particularly using automated computer systems to search for hospital-acquired bloodstream infections. He also is the principal investigator of the REALM project, which is a multi-hospital voluntary surveillance network for monitoring multidrug-resistant organisms among Chicago intensive care units and long term acute care hospitals. Most recently, he has been actively working on projects with local CDC Prevention Epicenter investigators (Mary Hayden, MD; William Trick, MD; Robert Weinstein, MD) to control extremely drug-resistant organisms such as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae.