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Scientific Advisory Council Roster

Council Chair

Krishna Rao, MD

Associate Professor,  Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School

Denise Cardo, MD

Director (retired), Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Barley Chironda

National Infection Preventionist and Clinical Solutions Director, The Clorox Company

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Elizabeth Dodds Ashley, PharmD, MHS

Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine; Director of Operations, Duke Antimicrobial Stewardship Outreach Network (DASON)
Duke University

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Bruce Hirsch, MD

Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
Hofstra/Northwell Zucker School of Medicine

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Gerard Honig, PHD

Associate Director
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Companies

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Stacy Kahn, MD

Director, FMT and Microbial Therapeutics Program
Attending Physician, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Boston Children’s Hospital

Mollie Lauck, MSN, CRNP, PHRN

Nurse Practioner & C. diff Survivor

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Nicole Mahoney, PhD

Executive Director, US Regulatory Policy and Intelligence
Novartis
Nicole’s involvement in PLF is voluntary and unrelated to her role at Novartis

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Cliff McDonald, MD, FACP

Associate Director for Science
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Bobby Warren, MPS

Lab Director, Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention
Duke University School of Medicine