Program
Doctor William Jarvis
William Robert Jarvis, MD, FAAP, FIDSA, FSHEA is President and co-founder of Jason and Jarvis Associates, a private consulting firm in healthcare epidemiology.
Previously, Dr. Jarvis spent twenty-three years at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia where he held a number of supervisory positions in epidemiology, research and infectious diseases. In his most recent role at the CDC, Dr. Jarvis was the Director, Office of Extramural Research, Office of the Director, National Center for Infectious Diseases where he was responsible for starting and building the first office of extramural research in the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases and funded over $10 million in grants.
Prior to his role as the Director of the Office of Extramural Research, Dr. Jarvis spent 22 years working for the CDC’s Hospital Infections Program (HIP; now known as the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion). He was responsible for the supervision of the investigation of all outbreaks and epidemiologic studies in healthcare settings and for developing all CDC guidelines for prevention of infection in healthcare settings. He was also responsible for training Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officers in epidemiologic methods and outbreak investigation. In addition, he served as Acting Director, HIP, CDC.
Since 1985, Dr. Jarvis has served as a Clinical Associate Professor at Emory University in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Immunology of the Department of Pediatrics. Additionally, he has served since 1990 as Clinical Assistant Professor at Emory University in the Department of Epidemiology.
Dr. Jarvis has held many society positions including member or fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), Association for Professions in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), Society for Pediatric Research, American Academy of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. He has been President, SHEA; Chair, Division L (Nosocomial Infections), ASM; and President of the APIC Research Foundation. In addition from 2004-2007, he was editor of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the SHEA journal.
Dr. Jarvis has published over 450 peer-reviewed publications, 60 book chapters, 54 surveillance reports (MMWRs) and is the Editor of two books, including the recently published Hospital Infections, 5th Edition. He has received numerous awards including the Spark's Memorial Award for Academic Excellence, CDC Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award, SHEA Lectureship and APIC State of the Science Scientific Excellence awards. Recently, he has been the PI of the first national inpatient MRSA survey in the United States and has led a multinational team examining the role of mechanical valves in increased BSI rates.
A licensed practitioner in Georgia, Texas and California, Dr. Jarvis received his M.D. from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston. He also has a B.S. in Psychology from the University of California, Davis.
Professor Anthony McMichael
Professor Tony McMichael (MBBS, PhD), epidemiologist, currently holds an NHMRC Australia Fellowship at the Australian National University, Canberra. He was previously Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is an advisor to the World Health Organization on climate change and health, long-time contributor to health risk assessment for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Chair of a reference panel for the WHO-based Tropical (Infectious) Diseases Research Program, participant in the Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre (2002-2009), and Honorary Professor of Climate Change and Health at the University of Copenhagen. His most recent books are Human Frontiers and Disease: Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and (as senior editor and author) Climate Change and Human Health: Risks and Responses (Geneva: WHO, 2003).
Professor Didier Pittet
Didier Pittet, MD, MS is the Hospital Epidemiologist and Director of the Infection Control Program at the University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland; Professor of Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology at the University of Geneva; and Attending Physician in Adult and Paediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Geneva Hospitals. He holds Honorary Professorships at Imperial College London, UK, the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Health Science, and the First Medical School of the Fu, Shanghai, China. Professor Pittet is Lead of the World Health Organization First Global Patient Safety Challenge “Clean Care is Safe Care”. He is the recipient of several national and international honours including a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) awarded by Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II for services to the prevention of healthcare-associated infection in the UK (2007), the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Lectureship for his contribution to infection control and healthcare epidemiology (2008), and the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases’ Award for Excellence (2009). Professor Pittet is co-author of more than 300 publications and several chapters in textbooks; his current research interests include the epidemiology and prevention of healthcare-associated infections, methods for improving compliance with barrier precautions and hand hygiene practices, as well as methods for improving the quality of patient care and patient safety. He is also involved in research on the epidemiology of infectious diseases