The Latest New Virus: Update on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus 

In lieu of an evening talk this month, the Global Health Curriculum planners of ChristianaCare are pleased to invite you to this month's global health talk.

Talk: The Latest New Virus: Update on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Speaker: Marci Drees, MD, MS, FACP, FSHEA
Chief Infection Prevention Officer, Hospital Epidemiologist
ChristianaCare

Dr. Drees is the infection prevention officer and hospital epidemiologist for ChristianaCare Health System. She is also an active researcher on the causes and prevention of diseases through her work as clinical investigator with the Center for Outcomes Research and co-director of Resident Research for the Department of Medicine.

Dr. Drees graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1998. She was a resident in internal medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. She also completed a diploma of tropical medicine and hygiene at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in England.

Her work in public health and epidemiology began in 2002, when she became an officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During this two-year training program, she was stationed with the Delaware Division of Public Health in Dover. She spent the next three years at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, where she completed two fellowships. One was in geographic medicine and infectious diseases. The other was in clinical care research at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University, during which she earned a master’s degree in clinical research.

Dr. Drees joined ChristianaCare in 2007. Her other roles in the health system include working as an attending in general medicine at Wilmington Hospital and in infectious diseases for the ChristianaCare HIV Program. She serves as chair of the Infection Prevention Committee. She is a member of the Safety First Committee, and the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee. Dr. Drees also serves on the Healthcare-Associated Infections Advisory Committee for the Delaware Division of Public Health and the Delaware Immunization Coalition.

For more information on the Global Health Curriculum, please contact:

• Dr. Karla Testa, ktesta@christianacare.org
• Dr. Anna Filip, anna.filip@christianacare.org
• Dr. Omar Khan, okhan@christianacare.org

The CCHS Global Health Curriculum is an interdepartmental collaboration, supporting the Global Health Tracks in the Depts. of Medicine and Family Medicine, and the Med-Peds Residency, with the support of the Delaware Academy of Medicine, Delaware Public Health Association, and Delaware Academy of Family Physicians.