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Professor Emerita
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, United States
CAROL A. KAUFFMAN, M.D.
Dr. Kauffman is Professor Emerita of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan Medical School and former Chief of the Infectious Diseases Section at the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System. She received her undergraduate degree from the Pennsylvania State University, attended medical school at the University of Michigan, where she also trained in Internal Medicine, and was a Fellow in Infectious Diseases at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. She returned to the University of Michigan in 1977 and was promoted to the rank of Professor of Internal Medicine in 1981. She directed the Infectious Diseases-Microbiology Sequence for first year medical students from 1987-2020.
Dr. Kauffman is a Master of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. She was served on the IDSA Board of Directors and was a member of several IDSA Guideline Panels for the management of fungal diseases. She received the IDSA Clinical Teacher Award in 2012 and the IDSA Walter E. Stamm Mentor Award in 2018. Dr. Kauffman is Past-President of the Veterans Affairs Society of Practitioners in Infectious Diseases, the International Immunocompromised Host Society, the Michigan Infectious Diseases Society, and the non-profit Veterans Affairs Education and Research Association of Michigan. She serves on editorial boards in the areas of mycology, infectious diseases, and hospital epidemiology, and is an Editor-in-Chief at UpToDate for Infectious Diseases. She has been an active member of the Mycoses Study Group since 1979 and served on the Steering Committee from 2000-2019.
Dr. Kauffman's research interests include prevention and treatment of fungal infections and infections in immunocompromised hosts. She has authored or co-authored more than 360 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 130 book chapters.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Friday, October 21, 2022
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM US ET
Friday, October 21, 2022
4:05 PM – 4:30 PM US ET