Professor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Dr. Ritu Banerjee is Professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is the Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Vanderbilt’s Children’s Hospital and Interim Division Director of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt. She received her MD and Ph.D degrees from Washington University in St. Louis and then completed Pediatrics residency and Pediatric Infectious Disease fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a member of the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases, Associate Editor of the Red Book, and chairs the Pediatrics Working Group of the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG) of NIAID. Dr. Banerjee conducts clinical research about antibiotic stewardship and implementation and outcomes of rapid diagnostics for infectious diseases.
