CMC3 Parada

Jorge Parada, MD, MPH

Dr. Parada is a former VA Research Career Development Awardee and an Associate Professor of Medicine. He joined Hines VA Hospital/Loyola University, Chicago in 1999 after completing a HSR Fellowship at Rush University/Cook County Hospital. In 1997 he completed a Masters of Public Health (Harvard) & Infectious Diseases Fellowship (Boston University/Boston VAMC). His residency training in internal medicine was at SUNY Stony Brook/Northport VAMC, where he was Chief Medical Resident, resident and intern (1991-95). He also trained at the Institute for Tropical Medicine and completed a medical-surgical residency in Lisbon (both in 1989). He graduated from the Lisbon Medical School (1987). His BA in Social Sciences is from at SUNY Stony Brook (Magna Cum Laude, 1981).

The focus of his research is clinical effectiveness, outcomes, and resource utilization in infectious diseases. His current work focuses primarily on hospital epidemiology/infection control and healthcare-associated infections, antimicrobial use, emergence of resistance and adverse events. Currently he is using MRSA and Clostridium difficile-associated infection as the focus of this work. His goal is to identify important process of care variables’ impact on outcomes. Ultimately this work will help rationalize and improve the quality of patient care as well as safeguard patient safety.

He collaborates on infectious diseases-related studies of patients with spinal cord injury (SCI), querying laboratory diagnostics, antibiotic and vaccine use and their impact on outcomes. He is also interested in emerging infections, emergency preparedness and bioterrorism. He has led federal-funded studies on bioterrorism, cost-effectiveness of medical responses emergency preparedness, and been Course Director for the Chicago Medical Society programs on emergency preparedness for bioterrorism, pandemic/avian influenza and SARS.

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