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Research Associate Professor
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Biography
Victor D. Rosenthal, MD, PhD, is a medical doctor from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a specialist in internal medicine and infectious diseases, is certified in infection control by the Chilean Society of Infection Control, and is certified in programs of clinical effectiveness from Harvard University; he was a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin about epidemiology and prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and has a PhD in epidemiology. During the last 32 years, he has been dedicated full-time to epidemiology, prevention and control of HAIs, patient safety, quality of health care, and developing online platforms for surveillance and control of HAIs.
He is a Research Associate Professor at the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (UM). He is the advisor of several students at UM on the topic of epidemiology and prevention of HAIs. He is also a member of the Florida Department of Health's Priority Area Workgroup for Transmissible and Emerging Diseases, U.S.A.
He is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) Foundation, a U.S. 501(c)(3) organization that is a non-profit research center that focuses on surveillance, prevention, and control of HAIs in low- and middle-income countries. In this role, he has been leading research since 2002 with over 2,500 researchers in hundreds of cities in over 50 countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Dr. Rosenthal has been a speaker at thousands of conferences and symposiums in 71 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, Latin America, and Oceania over the last 35 years.
He is the author of over 400 scientific publications and book chapters, of which 150 are indexed at the U.S. National Library of Medicine of the National Institute of Health, Pubmed. According to Google Scholar, he has 22,466 total citations, and his h-index is 66. He has been honored with ten major international awards for research excellence, such as the Blue Ribbon Award, the Best International Abstract Award, the Award for Publication Excellence, granted by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology of America (APIC), and the Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America (SHEA) William Jarvis Award.
Since 2007, he has written several chapters in the book Bennett & Brachman’s Hospital Infections, the most widely sold and used book on HAI prevention in the U.S. and worldwide. He also wrote chapters about HAIs in other books about Argentina, Colombia, and India, among other countries. He has a critical role in several distinguished organizations, such as with Oxford University in UK, by conducting multi-center researches and peer-reviewed scientific publications about bacterial resistance; with St George University in UK, by conducting multi-center researches about healthcare-associated infections in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units; with Washington University in Seattle, U.S.A., by conducting multi-center researches about bacterial resistance; with Washington University in St Louis, U.S.A., as a member of a panel for scientific trials; with the Joint Commission International based in U.S.A., contributing as task force member of the guideline to prevent bloodstream infections and as an author of a chapter at the book of best practices in infection prevention and control; at the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention of U.S.A. (C.D.C.), by developing an online software for surveillance of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis worldwide; with World Health Organization, being reviewer of hand hygiene and also multi-drug resistant microorganism guidelines, and by providing primary data for their meta-analysis about surgical site infections; with Ministry of Health of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Colombia by collaborating with edition of guidelines to prevent HAIs; with ministry of health and senate of Argentina by being a consultant and editor of national guidelines to prevent healthcare-associated infection s; with ministry of health of Italy, and of Swiss National Foundation, by being reviewer of requests for research grants; with the International Society of Infectious Diseases, by editing guidelines to prevent HAIs.
He has served as a jury for other researchers as an Editorial Board Member of the American Journal of Infection Control, the Journal of Infection and Public Health, and the Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials. He has judged the work of his colleagues as a peer-reviewer in over 100 peer-reviewed journals indexed at the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health, Pubmed, including Lancet and many others.
Pubmed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=rosenthal%20vd
All INICC publications: https://www.inicc.org/site/scientific-publications/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AZzzMK8AAAAJ&hl=en
INICC: https://www.inicc.org/site/ -
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