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Stephanie Black, MD

Medical Director, Communicable Disease Program, Chicago Department of Public Health
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, RUSH Medical College
Voluntary Attending, Cook County Health
Education

MSc, Rush Medical College
ID Fellowship, Rush Medical College
Internal Medicine Internship and Residency, Rush Medical College
MD, Temple University School of Medicine
BA, Cornell University

Areas of Expertise

Black’s area of focus is in public health with the goal of identifying and containing emerging and multi-drug resistant pathogens among poorly resourced healthcare facilities. In collaboration with the Rush Prevention and Intervention Epicenter and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black has worked to add resources and capacity in infection control in high risk transmission settings in the Chicago metropolitan region. These activities have served as a model for strategic interventions in other regions. As medical director with the Communicable Disease Program at a major metropolitan health department, she has experience in foodborne outbreaks, legionnaire’s disease investigations as well as developing a regional emergency preparedness response to infectious diseases of high consequence, including Ebola.

Research Summary: Black’s publications include surveillance of Clostridium difficile ribotypes in the Chicago area, the emergence of Candida auris in the Chicago area, and outbreak investigations of Legionnaire’s disease, rotavirus among adults, and foodborne diseases.

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Biography

In her position as Medical Director of the Communicable Disease Program in the Chicago Department of Public Health Black focuses on healthcare associated infections and infection control at healthcare institutions. The Communicable Disease Program conducts surveillance and outbreak investigations, facilitates testing, and responds to emerging infectious disease threats including Candida auris and carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. Black is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. She completed undergraduate training at Cornell University Medical School at Temple University, and residency and fellowship studies at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Black practiced clinical infectious diseases medicine for 6 years at Rush University Medical Center after completing a fellowship with a focus on hospital associated infections and emerging infectious diseases and continues to serve as Attending Physician at John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County.

Honors and Activities

Department of Internal Medicine Teaching and Service Award 2000-2001
Chief Infectious Disease Fellow, Rush University Medical Center 1998-1999
Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center 1998

Publications

Vallabhaneni S, Kallen A, Tsay S et al. Investigation of the First Seven Reported Cases of Candida auris, a Globally Emerging Invasive, Multidrug-Resistant Fungus — United States, May 2013–August 2016” MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2016;65:1234-1237.

MMWR. Pacilli, M, Cortese MM, Smith S, Siston A, Samala U, Bowen MD, Parada JP, Tam I, Rungsrisuriyachai K, Roy S, Esona MD, Black SR. Outbreak of gastroenteritis in adults due to rotavirus genotype G12P[8]. Clin Infect Dis. May 7, 2015. 

Smith, SS, Ritger, K, Samala U, Black SR, et al. Legionellosis outbreak associated with a hotel fountain. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2015 December 2(4); ofv 164.

Black SR, Weaver KN, Weinstein RA, Hayden MK, Lin MY, Lavin MA, Gerber SI. Regional infection control assessment of antibiotic resistance knowledge and practice. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2015 Apr; 36(4):381-6.

Serdarevic F, Jones RC, Weaver KN, Black SR, Ritger KA, Guichard F, Dombroski P, Emanuel B, Miller L, Gerber SI. Multipathogen Waterborne Disease Outbreak Associated with a Dinner Cruise on Lake Michigan. Epidemiology and Infection 2012 Mar; 140(4):621-625.

Black SR, Weaver KN, Jones RC, et al. Clostridium difficile Outbreak Strain BI is Highly Endemic in Chicago Area Hospitals. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2011 Sept; 32(9):897-902.