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Professor, Department of Internal Medicine

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Professor, Department of Internal Medicine

Editor in Chief, Clinical Microbiology Reviews

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MBBS, University of Adelaide, Australia
Internal Medicine Residency, Columbus Hospital, Chicago
Infectious Disease Fellowship, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Graeme Forrest, MBBS, moved from Australia to complete his internal medicine residency at Columbus Hospital in Chicago. He then completed a chief residency year at St Joseph Hospital in Chicago. He did his infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, where he stayed on as faculty for 7 more years.

He work as director of the antimicrobial stewardship program and worked on the organ transplant and endocarditis services, with interest in fungal infections. In 2008, Forrest moved to the VA Portland Healthcare System and Oregon Health and Science University, where he director of the Antimicrobial stewardship outcomes, HIV-organ transplant patients, the immunocompromised service and was chair of the VA IRB. His interventions reduced surgical site infections, OPAT utilization and reduction of fluoroquinolone usage. He is currently on the SHEA education committee and CLSI Outreach working group.

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