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William Robert Jarvis, MD, FAAP, FIDSA, FSHEA is President and co-founder of Jason and Jarvis Associates, a private consulting firm in healthcare epidemiology. Previously, Dr. Jarvis spent twenty-three years at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia where he held a number of supervisory positions in epidemiology, research and infectious diseases. In his most recent role at the CDC, Dr. Jarvis was the Director, Office of Extramural Research, Office of the Director, National Center for Infectious Diseases where he was responsible for starting and building the first office of extramural research in the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases and funded over $10 million in grants. Prior to his role as the Director of the Office of Extramural Research, Dr. Jarvis spent 22 years working for the CDC’s Hospital Infections Program (HIP; now known as the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion). He was responsible for the supervision of the investigation of all outbreaks and epidemiologic studies in healthcare settings and for developing all CDC guidelines for prevention of infection in healthcare settings. He was also responsible for training Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officers in epidemiologic methods and outbreak investigation. In addition, he served as Acting Director, HIP, CDC. Since 1985, Dr. Jarvis has served as a Clinical Associate Professor at Emory University in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Immunology of the Department of Pediatrics. Additionally, he has served since 1990 as Clinical Assistant Professor at Emory University in the Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Jarvis has held many society positions including member or fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), Association for Professions in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), Society for Pediatric Research, American Academy of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. He has been President, SHEA; Chair, Division L (Nosocomial Infections), ASM; and President of the APIC Research Foundation. In addition from 2004-2007, he was editor of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the SHEA journal. Dr. Jarvis has published over 450 peer-reviewed publications, 60 book chapters, 54 surveillance reports (MMWRs) and is the Editor of two books. He has received numerous awards including the Spark's Memorial Award for Academic Excellence, CDC Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award, SHEA Lectureship and APIC State of the Science Scientific Excellence awards. Recently, he has been the PI of the first national inpatient MRSA survey in the United States and has led a multinational team examining the role of mechanical valves in increased BSI rates. A licensed practitioner in Georgia, Texas and California, Dr. Jarvis received his M.D. from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston. He also has a B.S. in Psychology from the University of California, Davis.
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