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EMD Student Presents at 18th Annual Scientific Meeting of Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

Yale School of Public Health student, Rupak Datta, a candidate in the Masters of Public Health program in the Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, gave both oral and poster presentations he first-authored at the 18th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. The meeting is the premier scientific conference for physicians, epidemiologists, infection control practitioners, and other professionals in healthcare epidemiology. The meeting was held in Orlando, Florida from April 5-8.

Prior work of Mr. Datta’s regarding the examination of repeated healthcare-associated infections has been electronically published in Clinical Infectious Diseases in March.

Huang, S.S., Diekema, D.J., Warren, D.K., Zuccotti, G., Winokur, P.L., Tendolkar, S., Boyken, L., Datta, R., Jones, R.M., Ward, M.A., Aubrey, T., Onderdonk, A.B., Garcia, C., and Platt, R. Strain-Relatedness of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates Recovered from Patients with Repeated Infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases 46: 1241-1247, 2008.