Advisory Board
Reuben Ramphal, M.D. - ChairmanReuben Ramphal, M.D. is an internationally renowned expert in the treatment and mechanisms of resistance of the pervasive and deadly bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. He currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Florida and holds a clinical appointment at the Shands Teaching Hospital in Gainesville where he serves on numerous committees including Chairman of the Antibiotic Subcommittee. Dr. Ramphal has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications as well as several text chapters. He currently serves as a reviewer for several prominent medical journals including The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and CHEST. Dr. Ramphal received his MD degree from McGill University School of Medicine.
Robert Jackson Sherertz, M.D.
Robert Sheretz, M.D. currently serves as Professor of Internal Medicine as well as the Chair of the Infection Control Committee at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. For over fifteen years, Dr. Sheretz has studied the pathogenesis and prevention of vascular catheter infections and the transmission of nosocomial infections. Additionally, Dr. Sheretz currently serves as co-chair of the Quality of Care Council for the Wake Forest University Physicians whom oversee the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Dr. Sheretz received his M.D. degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Steven Mark Gordon, M. D.
Steven M. Gordon, MD, Chairman of the Department of Infectious Disease and a Staff Member in the Transplantation Center at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, OH, is certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease by the American College of Physicians. His specialty interests include epidemiology, infections, endocarditis, and cardiac device infections. Dr. Gordon earned his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York, NY. He completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics in Chicago, as well as a residency with the U.S. Public Health Service. He was a Fellow with the Centers for Disease Control, Hospital Infections Program, as well as a Fellow with Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Ga. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Society of Transplantation
Innominatum Society for which he is a past-Secretary and President of the society. He is a member of the Infectious Disease Society of America, and is a past Chairman for the Ohio American College of Physicians, among other memberships. Dr. Gordon has received a number of honors and awards over the years. Most recently, he was the Sherwood B. Winslow, M.D., Distinguished Lecturer for the Healthcare Leadership Forum. He has also presented a number of national and international meetings, as well as having published more than 100 articles and multiple book chapters.
John Segreti, M.D.
John Segreti, M.D. currently serves as a Professor at Rush Medical College as well as Chair of the Infectious Diseases and Sepsis Control Committee at the Rush University Medical Center. In addition to receiving a Department of Internal Medicine Teaching Award in 2003, Dr. Segreti was selected for Best Doctors in America in 2005. Dr. Segreti received his MD degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago.
Elaine Larson, RN, PhD, FAAN, CIC
Elaine Larson, RN, PhD, FAAN, CIC is currently a Professor of Pharmaceutical and Therapeutic Research and the Associate Dean for Research at the School of Nursing and a Professor of Epidemiology at the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, New York, NY. She is also Editor of the American Journal of Infection Control. From 1992-8, she was Dean, Georgetown University School of Nursing, and Associate Director of Nursing, Georgetown Hospital. Prior to that, she was the Nutting Professor of Clinical Nursing and Director of the Center for Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. There she directed a postdoctoral program in infection prevention. Dr. Larson received a baccalaureate in nursing, masters of arts in nursing and microbiology, and doctorate in epidemiology from the University of Washington. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Nurse Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Larson has served as a member of an NIH Study Section on HIV Infection, as the President of the Certification Board for Infection Control, as a member of nine journal editorial boards, an AHC Scholar in Academic Administration and Health Policy, as Director and then a trustee for the APIC Research Foundation, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, Infectious Disease Society of America, New York Academy of Medicine, Institute of Medicine, and The National Academies of Practice. For the Institute of Medicine, she has served on a number of committees, the Health Sciences Policy Board, and the Governing Council. She served on the President's Committee for Gulf War Veterans Illnesses, and is currently the Chair of the CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), Editor of the American Journal ofInfection Control, and a liaison member of the Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC.
She has published more than l90 journal articles, four books and a number of book chapters in the areas of infection prevention, epidemiology, and clinical research and has served as a consultant in infection control and nursing in international settings such as Kuwait, Jordan, Singapore, Australia, Ghana, Peru, Brazil, Spain, France, and Egypt.
Dr. Larson has served as a member of an NIH Study Section on HIV Infection, as the President of the Certification Board for Infection Control, as a member of nine journal editorial boards, an AHC Scholar in Academic Administration and Health Policy, as Director and then a trustee for the APIC Research Foundation, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, Infectious Disease Society of America, New York Academy of Medicine, Institute of Medicine, and The National Academies of Practice. For the Institute of Medicine, she has served on a number of committees, the Health Sciences Policy Board, and the Governing Council. She served on the President's Committee for Gulf War Veterans Illnesses, and is currently the Chair of the CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), Editor of the American Journal ofInfection Control, and a liaison member of the Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC.
She has published more than l90 journal articles, four books and a number of book chapters in the areas of infection prevention, epidemiology, and clinical research and has served as a consultant in infection control and nursing in international settings such as Kuwait, Jordan, Singapore, Australia, Ghana, Peru, Brazil, Spain, France, and Egypt.