National Institutes of Health
Building 10, Room 2C142
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Bethesda
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20892
Biographical Sketch: Dr. O'Grady is a senior staff physician in the Clinical Center’s Critical Care Medicine Department and is the Medical Director of the Clinical Center's Vascular Access and Conscious Sedation Services. She also is an attending physician with the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Department of the Children’s National Medical Center and an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
She obtained her undergraduate degree from University of Michigan and her medical degree at Ohio State University, then completed fellowships with NIH, and Johns Hopkins University, before returning to NIH in 1999.
Her research focuses on strategies to reduce the incidence of antimicrobial resistant pathogens in the ICU, and catheter-related blood stream infections.
Dr. O’Grady is currently a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Subspecialty Board in Critical Care Medicine, and has served on the institutional review board of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Disaster Planning and Response Task Force of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.