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 Leonard
Mermel, DO, ScM, AM (Hon)
Leonard Mermel, DO, ScM, AM (Hon), is an expert in hospital-acquired
infection control and prevention and has published and lectured on
avian flu. He is the medical director of the department of infection
control at Rhode Island Hospital and specializes in the prevention
and management of infections related to intravascular devices.
Mermel is professor of medicine at Brown Medical School. He has
co-authored two national guidelines for the prevention and management
of intravascular catheter-related infections and has co-authored
more than 150 textbook chapters, abstracts and articles in peer
reviewed journals in the area of infectious disease. He has lectured
extensively around the world.
He is immediate past president of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology,
an organization that brings together physicians from across the
United States involved in preventing the spread of infection in
hospitals. This society has focused on how to prevent the spread
of pandemic flu in hospitals and was the first organization to recommend
mandatory flu vaccines for health care workers.
He is a Technical Expert Panel member of the Medicare Patient Safety
Task Force for the Department of Health and Human Services and a
consultant for the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Pathogens
at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Department
of Health.
Mermel earned his master of science degree from Johns Hopkins University
School of Hygiene and Public Health and received his doctor of osteopathy
degree from the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences.
He joined Rhode Island Hospital as an attending physician in the
division of infectious disease in 1991.
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