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Opportunists and Opportunities: The 2010 SHEA Lecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David K. Henderson
David K. Henderson*
Affiliation:
Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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Clinical Center, Building 10, Room 6-1480, 10 Center Drive MSC 1504, Bethesda, MD 20892-1504 (dkh@nih.gov)
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Abstract

My experience as a hospital epidemiologist at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center has underscored the importance of aggressively managing infection with opportunistic pathogens and of taking advantage of opportunities as they arise (most often as crises). I review selected aspects of my career and use these as examples of the opportunists and opportunities now facing healthcare epidemiology.

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Supplement Article
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue S1: Papers from the Fifth Decennial International Conference on Healthcare-Associated Infections , November 2010 , pp. S66 - S69
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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