Medical Director of Antibiotic Stewardship
Intermountain Healthcare
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Edward (Eddie) Stenehjem, MD, MSc – Dr. Eddie Stenehjem is Intermountain Healthcare’s Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship, overseeing antimicrobial stewardship programs across 23 hospitals and over 185 outpatient clinics throughout Utah and Idaho. Dr. Stenehjem trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado and completed his Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Stenehjem founded Intermountain’s Infectious Diseases TeleHealth Program which provides real time Infectious Diseases consultation and antimicrobial stewardship support to 19 small community hospitals. His research is focused on improving the quality of infectious diseases care delivered to patients with an emphasis on developing, implementing, measuring, and studying methods of improving antimicrobial stewardship practices across the continuum of care.