Medical Director for Infection Prevention
Parkview Health
Roger Scott Stienecker MD FACP FSHEA FIDSA CIC is a graduate of The Ohio State University School of Medicine with Internal Medicine Residency at the Bowman Gray Center for Medical Education at Wake Forest University then fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Emory School of Medicine with research component performed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Ga.
After 22 years in private practice seeing over 27,000 unique patients, he had developed a long-standing fascination with hospital epidemiology, and a desire to better serve population health. The next career opportunity was a hospital administrative role in 2012 to support expansion of infection prevention and stewardship throughout the hospital system in a patient-physician focused health care system at Parkview Health.
Currently, he is the Medical Director of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention, Antimicrobial Stewardship, and Infectious Diseases Clinical Trials for Parkview Health System. The department has 25 members in IP, epidemiology and data analytics. Parkview Health is a 1100 bed, 10 hospital system, with 2 affiliated hospitals. Additional responsibilities include antimicrobial stewardship, clinical research, externalizing infection prevention to long term care, project management, quality improvement, healthcare informatics and predictive analytics and Epic BUGSY development.
Dr. Stienecker teaches for the Fort Wayne Medical Education residency program, the Indiana University School of Medicine-Fort Wayne, and the Parkview Graduate Medical Education Program. Additional service includes service on advisory committees for the Fort Wayne-Allen County Department of Health, and on the Antimicrobial Stewardship subcommittee and External Technology Advisory Committee for the Indiana State Department of Health, The Upper Elkhart River steering committee among others. He is the president-Elect for the Fort Wayne Medical Society and on the planning committee for Association for Professionals of Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) national meeting.