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Professor of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Bernard C. Camins, MD, MSc is currently Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Medical Director for Infection Prevention at the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) in New York. He was previously Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Healthcare Epidemiologist for the UAB Health System from 2014-2018. Prior to that, he was Assistant Professor of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and an Associate Hospital Epidemiologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He has been involved in healthcare epidemiology and has conducted research to prevent device-related infections like central-line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI). He has been a member of the Emergency Operations Center at MSHS created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2016, he was selected to be a member of CDC/SHEA Outbreak Response Training Program Planning Committee. The goal of this program was to train healthcare epidemiologists and infection preventionists on how to prepare and manage emergent highly infectious pathogens.
