Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Tel Aviv
Israel
64239
Biographical Sketch: Yehuda Carmeli, MD, MPH, is the chief of the Division of Epidemiology, and a Senior Staff physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Tel Aviv Medical Center, in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is also on the research staff at the Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Dr. Carmeli received his MD degree from Ben Gurion University, Israel and his MPH degree at Harvard School of Public Health. He served his residency at Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and then served as a fellow in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Dr. Carmeli completed his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His primary research interest is the epidemiology of resistance to antibiotics. Dr. Carmeli is the recipient of the Finland research award of the Massachusetts Infectious Disease Society, and the John T. Smith award on research of new quinolones, and The ICAAC program award for Pathogenesis of Microbial Diseases. He was nominated as the chair of the Advisory Committee to the Israeli Ministry of Health on Nosocomial Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance. Dr. Carmeli is the author of over 140 research articles.