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Dr. Lisa Maragakis is the Senior Director of Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Control for the Johns Hopkins Health System and the Hospital Epidemiologist and Director of the Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where she received her medical degree and post-doctoral Infectious Diseases training and a master’s degree in public health from The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Maragakis is the Executive Director of the Biocontainment Unit at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, which is designated as one of 10 U. S. regional treatment centers for patients infected with Ebola or other special pathogens.
Dr. Maragakis has served as a Councilor on the Board of Directors of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), as Vice-Chair of the SHEA Guidelines Committee, and as the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Co-chair for the 2014 and 2020 updates of “A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals.” She currently serves as Co-chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). Her research interests are the prevention of healthcare-acquired infections, the epidemiology and prevention of antimicrobial-resistant gram negative bacilli, and understanding and addressing human factors that may interfere with or facilitate compliance with evidence-based best practices for infection prevention.