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Central Texas Veterans Health Care System
Disclosure(s): AHRQ R01 Grant-5R01HS025598: Grant/Research Support; EOS Surfaces: Copper Coupons and materials for testing
Dr. Chetan Jinadatha received his Medical Doctor from JJM Medical College, in India, and his Masters in Public Health from the School of Public Health, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas. He completed his internship, residency and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Scott & White Memorial Hospital, in Temple, Texas.
Dr. Chetan Jinadatha currently is the Chief of 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, College Station, TX.
He has extensive experience in prevention of healthcare acquired infections (HAIs). His clinical and research interests focus on the role of surfaces in causation of HAIs and how technology might be able to solve the problem of HAIs as well as Legionella and COVID prevention along with whole genome sequencing. Dr. Jinadatha has also testified as an expert witness on the use of technology for prevention of HAI in front of Science, Technology and Space Committee of US Congress in June, 2014 and participated in several task force related to Legionella prevention in the VA as well as waste water surveillance for COVID. Dr. Jinadatha has also authored chapters in the APIC text book of Infection prevention and control and has published several manuscripts in peer reviewed journals.