University of Iowa College of Medicine and Hospitals and Clinics; Iowa City Veterans' Affairs Medical Center
200 Hawkins Drive, C-521-2 GH
Iowa City
IAUSA
52242
Biographical Sketch: Daniel J. Diekema, M.D., F.A.C.P., is a Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine and Pathology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. After receiving his M.D. at Vanderbilt University in 1989, he completed an Internal Medicine residency at the University of Virginia. He then completed fellowship training in Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology at the University of Iowa, during which time he completed an MS in Preventive Medicine. After three years practicing internal medicine and infectious diseases in Maine, he returned to the University of Iowa in 1998 to complete a fellowship in Medical Microbiology. He joined the faculty at Iowa in 1999. In addition to serving as an associate director of the University of Iowa Hospitals Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, he serves as the associate hospital epidemiologist at University of Iowa Healthcare and as hospital epidemiologist at the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Diekema also directs the Molecular Epidemiology and Fungus Testing Laboratory at the University of Iowa.
Dr. Diekema’s clinical and research interests include several aspects of healthcare epidemiology, including the epidemiology of invasive fungal infections in hospitalized patients, and the epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance.