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Scientific Advisory Council Roster

all affiliations are listed for identification purposes only.
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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Curtis Donskey, MD

Hospital Epidemiologist, Cleveland VA Medical Center
Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University

Jason Goldsmith, MD, PhD

Medical and Scientific Officer, Live Microbiome Therapeutics
Medical, Scientific, and Regulatory GI Pharma, Nestle

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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

Cindy Hou, DO

Infection Control Officer, Jefferson Health
Medical Director of Research, Jefferson Health – New Jersey

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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

Thomas Louie, MD

Professor Emeritus of Medicine & Microbiology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

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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

Nirja Mehta, MD

Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine 

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Kelly Reveles, PharmD, PhD

Associate Professor, UT Austin College of Pharmacy
Adjoint Associate Professor, UT Health San Antonio School of Medicine

Matthew Sims, MD, PhD

Medical Director of Research, Corewell Health East
Director of Infectious Diseases Research, Corewell Health East
Assistant Dean for Research and Professor of Internal Medicine and Foundational Medical Studies, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

Javier A. Villafuerte Gálvez, MD

Instructor in Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

Bobby Warren, MPS

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