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Dr. David Jay Weber is currently the Charles Addison and Elizabeth Ann Sanders Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina (ºÚÁÏÍø), Chapel Hill, NC, USA.\u00a0 Dr. Weber received his Medical Degree from the University of California, San Diego in 1977, a Master\u2019s in Public Health from Harvard University in 1985, and completed his medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1985.\u00a0 He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, Critical Care Medicine, and Preventive Medicine.\u00a0 Dr. Weber serves as an Associate Chief Medical Office, Associate Chief Quality Officer and Medical Director of Infection Prevention for the ºÚÁÏÍø Medical Center.\u00a0 He is the President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and the Associate Editor of Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.\u00a0 He is an Associate Editor of the journal Vaccine. Dr. Weber has published more than 575 scientific papers in the peer-reviewed literature cited in PubMed and more than 700 total papers and chapters.\u00a0 He is a member of the CDC Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) and on the following working group: National Health Surveillance Network (Chair), Dental Water Lines (Chair), and Occupational Health for Healthcare personnel. Dr. Weber is an Expert Advisor for Clean Hospitals, Geneva. He Chairs, the NC Dept. of Health, TB Advisory Committee. His research interests include the epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections, disinfection and sterilization, new and emerging infectious diseases (highly communicable pathogens including SARS-CoV-2, HPAI, newly emerging pathogens including Candida auris<\/em>), response to biothreats, nontuberculous mycobacteria, control of drug-resistant pathogens, immunization practices, zoonotic diseases, and epidemiology of tuberculosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"