Stephen G. Weber currently serves as the medical director of infection control and clinical quality at the University of Chicago Medical Center and assistant professor in the section of infectious diseases. His primary research interest is antibiotic resistance among hospitalized geriatric patients and the diffusion and dissemination of best practices in infection prevention.
As a consultant for Joint Commission Resources, Dr. Weber works with a variety of organizations to assess current infection prevention and control systems designed to ensure continual compliance with Joint Commission standards, effective use of data and information, streamlined processes, and educational modalities to enhance infection prevention efforts.
Dr. Weber has served in a number of capacities at the University of Chicago aimed at focusing both institutional and community policy issues on the prevention of health care–associated infections, particularly those caused by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO). He has also served as the chair of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology’s (APIC) joint task force on legislation mandating active surveillance screening for antimicrobial-resistant bacteria.
Dr. Weber currently serves on the Public Policy Committee of SHEA, the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) Subcommittee on MRSA screening implementation and was recently asked by the state Department of Health to join the Advisory Committee for the Illinois Hospital Report Card Act.
Dr. Weber received his doctor of medicine from the New York University School of Medicine and performed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Chicago, where he also served as chief medical resident. Dr. Weber completed his subspecialty training in infectious diseases at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, where he also received a master’s degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Weber is a prior recipient of the Association of Subspecialty Professors/Infectious Diseases Society of American Young Investigator Award in Geriatrics and is currently an investigator on multiple federally-sponsored clinical studies of MDRO epidemiology and treatment.