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Dale N. Gerding, M.D. Chief, Medical Service VA Chicago Health Care System
Medical Service 333 E. Huron Chicago, IL 60611 Telephone: 312/469-2193 Fax: 312/469-2313 Email: Dale.Gerding2@med.va.gov
Dr. Gerding is Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development at the Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood, Illinois. Prior to his present position Dr. Gerding was Chief of Medicine at VA Chicago, Lakeside Division, and Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is an infectious diseases specialist and hospital epidemiologist, past president of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and past chair the antibiotic resistance committee of SHEA. He is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and Chair of the National and Global Public Health Committee of IDSA. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Society for Microbiology. Dr. Gerding received his undergraduate degree in physics from St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN, attended graduate school in physics at UCLA in Los Angeles, California, and received his MD degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School. He was a medical intern at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and following two years at the National Institutes of Health completed his medical residency and infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis VA Medical Center. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. His research interests include the epidemiology and prevention of Clostridium difficile disease, antimicrobial resistance, and antimicrobial distribution and kinetics. He has been a Merit Review funded research investigator in the VA for nearly 30 years and is the author of over 250 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and reviews. He holds patents for the use of non-toxigenic C. difficile for the prevention and treatment of this disease. He is the former editor-in-chief of www.icanprevent.com and www.icanMD.com online infectious disease and infection control websites. He is a member of the editorial boards of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, and Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, and is an ad hoc reviewer for numerous other medical journals.
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