Medical Officer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Matthew Crist, MD, MPH serves as a Medical Officer in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Crist works on the Response Team where he provides consultation to state and local health departments conducting investigations of outbreaks due to contaminated medical products or breaches in infection control practices, and also serves as a subject matter expert on drug diversion. He attended Duke University for his undergraduate education and received his medical degree and masters of public health degree from the University of North Carolina. He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases having completed his internal medicine residency training at the University of Virginia and infectious diseases fellowship training at Vanderbilt University. Before joining CDC in August 2015 Dr. Crist worked at the Tennessee Department of Health in the HAI and Antibiotic Stewardship Program, and then served as the Director of the HAI and Respiratory Disease Unit at the Georgia Department of Public Health, and subsequently as the HAI Section Director at the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.
