Chief, Infectious Diseases Section
Central Texas Veterans Health Care System
Disclosure: AHRQ (Research Grant or Support)Department of Veterans Affairs (Other Financial or Material Support, Owner: Department of Veterans Affairs. Licensed to: Xenex Disinfection System, San Antonio, TX)Inventor (Other Financial or Material Support, Methods for organizing the disinfection of one or more items contaminated with biological agents)NiH/NINR (Research Grant or Support)NSF (Research Grant or Support)Xenex Healthcare Services (Research Grant or Support)
Dr. Chetan Jinadatha currently serves as the Chief, Infectious Diseases Section at Central Texas Veterans Health Care System in Temple, Texas. He is also a Clinical Professor, School of Medicine at Texas A & M University.
Dr. Jinadatha is clinician, researcher, educator, and inventor. His clinical and research interests focus on the role of surfaces in the causation of HAIs and how technology might be able to solve the problem of HAIs. He has participated in several VA task forces related to Legionella prevention and wastewater surveillance for COVID-19. Dr. Jinadatha has also testified as an expert witness in US Congress and has also authored chapters in the APIC textbook of Infection prevention and control. Apart from publishing several peer-reviewed manuscripts in peer reviewed journals he also holds multiple patents in HAI prevention technologies and serves as a grant reviewer on various study sections.
