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Graeme Forrest, MBBS

Graeme Forrest, MBBS
Professor of Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, RUSH Medical College
Editor in Chief, Clinical Microbiology Reviews
Education

MBBS, University of Adelaide, Australia
Internal Medicine Residency, Columbus Hospital, Chicago
Infectious Disease Fellowship, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Research Areas

Outcomes research in antimicrobial stewardship and other infectious disease interventions to reduce durations of therapies and optimize dosing. Also, management and prevention of invasive fungal in immunosuppressed hosts. Any clinical trials that will benefit immunosuppressed patients.

Areas of Expertise:
Outcomes of antimicrobial stewardship in immunosuppressed hosts, Rapid microbiologic testing, Cryptococcal and invasive fungal infections, Transplant infections

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Biography

Graeme Forrest, MBBS, moved from Australia to do his Internal medicine residency at Columbus Hospital in Chicago. He then did a Chief Residency year at St Joseph Hospital in Chicago. He did his infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, where he stayed on as faculty for 7 more years. His work director of the antimicrobial stewardship program and worked on the organ transplant and endocarditis services, with interest in fungal infections. In 2008 Forrest moved to the VA Portland Healthcare System and Oregon Health and Science University, where he director of the Antimicrobial stewardship outcomes, HIV-organ transplant patients, the immunocompromised service and was Chair of the VA IRB. His interventions reduced surgical site infections, OPAT utilization and reduction of fluoroquinolone usage. He is currently on the SHEA education committee and CLSI Outreach working group.

Publications

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