University of California, San Francisco
1001 Potrero Ave
San Francisco
CAUSA
94110
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Chambers graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1977 where he was class valedictorian. He trained in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of California San Francisco. His was also a Kaiser Foundation Fellow in General Internal Medicine at UCSF and a post-doctoral research fellow at Rockefeller University. Dr. Chambers has been a member of the medical faculty of the UCSF since 1985 where he currently is Professor of Medicine, Chief of Infectious Diseases at San Francisco General Hospital, and Director of the UCSF Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program. He is also co-chairman of the Infection Control Committee and chair of the Antibiotic Advisory Committee at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Chambers is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and was elected to membership in the American Society of Clinical Investigation. He is an Editor for Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a reviewer for numerous medical publications, and a peer reviewer for NIH study sections. He has been a member of advisory groups for the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, a member of IDSA treatment guidelines committee for skin and soft tissue infections and a co-chair the IDSA guidelines committee for treatment of infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. His clinical and research interests are antimicrobial drug resistance, staphylococcal infections, experimental therapeutics, and epidemiology and pathogenesis of disease caused by community methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. He has over 200 publications and textbook chapters in the areas of drug resistance, endocarditis, bacterial infections, and staphylococcal diseases.