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Chief, ID Section & Hospital Epidemiologist
VA Portland Healthcare System
Portland, OR, United States
Since 2011, Dr. Pfeiffer has served as the Hospital Epidemiologist at the VA Portland Health Care System (VAPORHCS) and as an Infectious Diseases (ID) physician, rounding on both General and Transplant ID consult services at VAPORHCS and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). In 2012, he began a now longstanding ongoing collaboration with the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) by becoming the Medical Director for Oregon’s Drug-Resistant Organism Prevention and Coordinated Regional Epidemiology (DROP-CRE) Network. The primary goals of DROP-CRE Network, which is funded through OHA by CDC, are to prevent, detect, and control the spread of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) with an ongoing focus on carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) in Oregon.
Over the past 10 years Dr. Pfeiffer has become involved in several multicenter VA collaborations with a primary focus within the broad range of healthcare-associated infection epidemiology, prevention, and treatment. In 2020, he completed work on a successful development and national implementation of an automated MDRO alert system across the VA.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Saturday, October 22, 2022
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM US ET