Clinical Professor of Medicine
Stanford University
Stan Deresinski is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine. After training in Internal Medicine, he completed training in Infectious Diseases at Stanford University. He has practiced clinical infectious diseases for more than four decades. His clinical interests and activities have been broad and have included AIDS, fungal infections, antimicrobial resistance, infections in critical care medicine, and medical education. He was awarded me the Watanakunokorn Award given to the top clinician of the year by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). He is a past chairperson of the IDSA Standards and Practices Guidelines Committee as well as a past member of the IDSA Board of Directors.
In 2012, Stan initiated the Antimicrobial Stewardship program at Stanford which, in 2019, became the first World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center dealing with this subject. Stan and his colleagues, especially Marisa Holubar, have developed multiple widely accessed online educational programs focusing on antimicrobial. These include a number of programs and guides developed for WHO, particularly for use in lesser developed countries.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
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