Portland Veteran Affairs Medical Center
3701 SW US Veterans Hospital Road
P3ID
Portland
ORUSA
97239
Email:
forrestg@ohsu.edu
Biographical Sketch: Graeme Forrest, M.B.B.S. is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Portland VA Medical Center and Oregon Health and Science University. He is Director of the Antimicrobial Program at both centers and main interests are in infections in immunocompromised hosts, especially fungal infections and using rapid diagnostics to improve patient outcomes by early directed antimicrobial therapy. He recently moved to Oregon from the University of Maryland, Baltimore where he cumulatively saved over $12,000,000 with antimicrobial management over 7 years with decreased VRE rates. Dr Forrest graduated from the University of Adelaide Medical School in 1990 and did his residency at St Joseph’s hospital in Chicago and Infectious Disease fellowship at the University of Maryland.