Dr. Lisa Maragakis, MD, MPH, FSHEA, FIDSA
Dr. Maragakis is professor of medicine, infectious disease, and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is the Senior Director of Infection Prevention for The Johns Hopkins Health System. Her research interests are the epidemiology, prevention and control of healthcare-acquired infections and antimicrobial-resistant pathogens. She served as Incident Commander for Johns Hopkins Medicine’s COVID-19 response.
Dr. Maragakis recently served as the Infectious Disease Society of America Co-Chair for the 2022 Update of the Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections and as the Co-Chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), a federal advisory committee that provides advice and guidance to HHS and CDC on infection control practices. She is the incoming Vice President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America for a term that begins in January 2024.