Associate Professor
The Ohio State University
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Courtney Hebert, MD, MS is a practicing physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) at the Ohio State University (OSU). After her clinical training, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in BMI, receiving an MS in Public Health with a specialization in BMI. She combines her dual roles as an Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Informatician specializing in the re-use of electronic health record data to pursue research at the intersection of Healthcare Epidemiology and Clinical Informatics. She has served as the PI of a R01 funded by NIAID to develop predictive models for antibiotic coverage to aid in empiric antibiotic prescribing. She was a project lead on a P30 grant from AHRQ focused on creating a learning laboratory within infection control, in which her team developed automated algorithms for surveillance and leveraged Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to better understand in-hospital spread of infection. She was awarded an R01 from AHRQ to further this work to develop a fully functioning hospital GIS for infection prevention. Her research goals are to improve the health of patients by leveraging clinical data to better understand disease processes and to build tools to support better clinical decision making.