Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Rd NE, MS A-35
Atlanta
GAUSA
30333
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Srinivasan is the Team Leader of the Response team in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Before coming to CDC he was as Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Infectious Diseases Division at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he was the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Management Program and the associate hospital epidemiologist. His primary responsibilities currently include investigation of outbreaks that occur in healthcare facilities and policy and research work related to these outbreaks. His areas of concentration include outbreak investigations, infection control, multi-drug resistant gram negative pathogens, device related infections and infections related to organ and tissue transplantation. In 2008, he assumed the medical directorship of a new CDC campaign called “Get Smart for Healthcare” which is designed to improve the use of antimicrobials in in-patient healthcare facilities. Dr. Srinivasan has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals on his research in healthcare epidemiology, infection control and antimicrobial use and resistance. He is a member of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.