The University of Iowa College of Medicine, College of Public Health, and Hospitals and Clinics
Internal Medicine
200 Hawkins Drive
Iowa City
IAUSA
52242-1081
Biographical Sketch: Loreen Herwaldt graduated from Grinnell College in 1973 and from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine in Madison, Wisconsin in 1977. She did an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis from 1977-1980. She was an epidemic intelligence service officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1980-1982 after which, she returned to Washington University to do an infectious diseases fellowship from 1982-1987. She joined the faculty at the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1987. She is now a professor of Internal Medicine and Hospital Epidemiologist at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. She also has an adjunct appointment in the Department of Epidemiology in the University of Iowa College of Public Health. Her research addresses infectious and non-infectious adverse outcomes of medical care, including healthcare-associated infections and falls. She has done considerable work on staphylococcal infections. She has also done work on narratives of illness. She edited the first edition of a Practical Handbook for Hospital Epidemiologists and she published a book entitled Patient Listening: a Doctor’s Guide. She has served on the board of SHEA and she teaches in the SHEA/CDC, the ESCMID/SHEA, and the SHEA/CDC/GCC hospital epidemiology courses.