Virginia Commonwealth University
Box 980533
Med Coll of Virginia Campus
Richmond
VAUSA
23298-0533
Email:
rpolk@hsc.vcu.edu
Biographical Sketch: Ron Polk received his Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from Washington State University in 1971 and his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Michigan in 1973. He is currently Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine, and Chairman of the Department of Pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia Campus in Richmond. He is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, past member of the program committee of the Interscience Conference of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) and a founding member and past-president of the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists. He has published over 100 journal articles on a variety of infectious diseases topics and he is an author or co-author in a number of medical textbooks including Harrisons’ Principles of Internal Medicine, Mandell’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases and Wenzel’s Prevention and Control of Nosocomial Infections. His current research interests include the pharmacoepidemiology of hospital antibiotic use and its relationship to bacterial resistance and Clostridium difficile disease. His research group has presented in excess of 35 abstracts at professional meeting on this topic since year 2000.