Ongoing Studies

  • Promoting Antibiotic Stewardship in Home Care Settings (2022 Epi Project)
    PI: Rupak Datta
  • Evaluating racial/ethnic inequities in antibiotic prescribing: Implications for antibiotic stewardship (Research Scholar)
    PI: Shana Burrows
  • Stewardship in the management of neutropenic fever
    PI: Matthew Ziegler
  • Bundles to prevent surgical site infections following colorectal procedures
    PI: Aurora Pop-Vicas
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Antimicrobial Stewardship
    PI: Zanthia Wiley
  • Blood culture benchmarks
    PI: Valeria Fabre
  • Fluoroquinolone restriction on CDI
    PI: Nasia Safdar
  • Prescribing practices for Paxlovid
    PI: Rebecca Wang
  • Diagnostic Stewardship of Multiplex Panel Tests to Improve Antibiotic Use (Epi Project)
    PI: Jonathan Baghdadi
  • Development and Evaluation of a Checklist for Reliable Environmental Cleaning in Occupied and Semi-private Patient Rooms: CheckR (Research Scholar)
    PI: Linda McKinley
  • Infection prevention and antibiotic stewardship program needs and practices in 2021: A survey of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Research Network
    PI: KC Coffey, SRN Leadership Team
  • Job Experiences in Hospital Epidemiology
    PI: Gonzalo Bearman
  • Disparities in HAI Prevention
    PI: Caitlin McGrath (Pediatric Leadership Council)
  • Curtailing Nosocomial Amplification of COVID-19 with Mathematical Modeling
    PI: Eric Lofgren
  • Current Use of Routine Contact Precautions for MDROs
    PI: Emily Martin
  • Efforts to Prevent Non-Ventilator Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
    PIs: Dian Baker, Karen Giuliano
  • HVAC Settings, SSIs, COVID-19, and Climate Change
    PI: Jason Burnham
  • Peri-Operative Antibiotics in Neurosurgery
    PI: Rahul Sastry
  • Burnout in Antimicrobial Stewardship: A Mixed Methods Study (Research Scholar)
    PI: Julie Szymczak
  • Development of Validated Diagnostic Stewardship Strategy to Improve Reflex Urine Culture Utilization and Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infections (Research Scholar)
    PI: Sonali Advani
  • Study of Effect of Fluoroquinolone Restriction on CDI (FIRST Trial)
    PI: Nasia Safdar
  • Active Bathing to Eliminate Infection (ABATE)
    PI: Jonathan Zenilman
  • The Value and Impact of Public Reporting
    PI: Gregory Schrank
  • Sepsis Research Priorities
    PI: Nasia Safdar
  • Molecular Epidemiology of Spinal Fusion Surgical Site Infection and Influence of Preoperative Patient Microbiome
    PI: Dustin Long
  • Perceptions of Data Management in Infection Prevention
    PI: Carlos Figueroa-Castro
  • Assessing the composition and function of existing antimicrobial stewardship committees in the practice-based setting as compared to published guidelines
    PI: Matthew Weissenbach
  • Antibiotic Overuse at Hospital Discharge (Epi Project)
    PI: Valerie Vaughn
  • NOSOFlu: Developing Healthcare-Associated Flu Definitions
    PI: Philippe Vanhems
  • Variation in Practices to Clean and Disinfect Surfaces in SHEA Research Network Facilities (Epi Project)
    PI: Sujan Reddy
  • ERCP Endoscope Reprocessing Practices to Reduce the Risk of CRE Transmission
    PI: David Yassa
  • Applying the Washington State Validation Protocol to Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Reporting Across a National Cohort (Epi Project)
    PI: Jason Lempp
  • How to Study Quality Improvement Strategies
    PI: Susan Huang