Sharon Welbel, MD

PubMed MyBibliography

Chapters:

Welbel SF, Weinstein RA. Nosocomial Infection. In: Parillo JE. ed. Current Therapy in Critical Care Medicine Third edition. Mosby-Year Book, Inc. Philadelphia, 1997

Fridkin S, Welbel S, Weinstein R. Magnitude and Prevention of Nosocomial Infections in the ICU. In Weeberd, and Rutala W eds. Infectious Disease Clinics of North America. W.B. Saunders Company Philadelphia, 1997

Welbel SF, Weinstein RA. Other Procedure-Related Infections.  In: Bennett JV and Brachman PS  eds. Hospital Infections Fourth Edition. Lippincott-Raven, New York,1998

Welbel SF, Weinstein RA. Other Procedure-Related Infections.  In: Bennett and Brachman’s Hospital Infections Fifth Edition. Editor: William R. Jarvis. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins:2007

Welbel SF, Weinstein RA. Other Procedure-Related Infections.  In: Bennett and Brachman’s Hospital Infections Fifth Edition. Editor: William R. Jarvis. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins:2013

1995-1998 Principle Investigator- Cooperative Agreement H75CCH517618- CDC Using the National Surveillance System of Hospital Healthcare Workers to Reduce Percutaneous Injuries among Health Care Workers
$250,000.00

1999-2004 Co-investigator- Chicago Antimicrobial Resistance Project (CARP) Award # U50CCU515853-01 Chair Infection Control Subcommittee
$3,917,864.00

2000-2010 Principal Investigator-Award-CDC#200-2001-00087 Tuberculosis Epidemiologic Studies Consortium (TBESC)
$1,482,996.00

2002-2012 Co-principal investigator –Cooperative Agreement 11272-Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response -Hospital Preparedness Program
$2,432,628.00

2008-2010 Principal Investigator-Award-CDC, TBESC T.O. # 8 An Analysis of Molecular Epidemiology of Multi-drug Resistant M. tuberculosis in the U.C. and Canada #200-2001-00087
$20,000.00

2008-2010 Co-Principal Investigator-Award CDC TBESC T.O. #25 Tuberculosis Mortality in the United States: Epidemiology and Prevention Opportunities #200-2001-000087
$170,000

2009-2010 C0-Principal Investigator-Award CDC TBESC T.O. #32 Cost of TB in the US #200-2001-000087
$143,494.00

2016-Present Principle Investigator - Award CDC Division of Healthcare Quality And Prevention. Effectiveness of Environmental Cleaning in Impact of intensive monitoring methods for terminal room cleaning on rates of multidrug-resistant organisms in the Intensive Care Unit.

2017-Present Co-investigator - Award CDC Division of Healthcare Quality And Prevention. Surgical Site Infections in Colon Surgery Patients Through Appropriate Antibiotic Perioperative Prophylaxis.

2017-Present Principle Investigator (JHS site)-Award CDC Division of Healthcare Quality and Prevention. Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing Evaluation and Comparison (CHECkuP) Project

April, 1992
Infectious Disease Hospital, Mexico City, Mexico
Topic- Prevention of Nosocomial HIV and Tuberculosis

March, 1997
Grand Rounds, Christ Hospital, Oak Lawn 
Topic- Hospital acquired infections in the intensive care unit

January, 1999
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Chicago
Topic-Tuberculosis

September, 2002
Meet the Expert Session –Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Topic-Hospital Construction and Infection Control, San Diego  

September, 2007
Tuberculosis Intensive Course, Heartland National TB Center in partnership with the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago
Topic-Healthcare associated Tuberculosis  

November, 2009
Influenza Symposium. Loyola University and Cook County Department of Public Health, Maywood

December, 2009
Grand Rounds. Mount Sinai Hospital
Topic- Novel H1N1 Influenza, Chicago

April 2010
Presentation and panel discussion: Glove use in healthcare workers
Institute of Medicine Workshop on Personal Protective Technologies, Washington, DC

August 2010
Invited Reviewer-IOM Draft Report on Certifying Personal Protective Technologies: Improving Worker Safety, Reviewer Invite