Deborah Yokoe, MD, MPH

Medical Director, Infection Control at UCSF Medical Center
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Deborah Yokoe, M.D., M.P.H. is a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine. She is the Medical Director for Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention for the adult services and an attending physician on the Transplant Infectious Diseases consultation service.

She has served as the co-chair of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on infection prevention and control issues. She is also a member of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Board of Trustees and served as the SHEA President in 2023.

Her research has focused on the development and evaluation of streamlined and reliable methods for performing surveillance for healthcare-associated infections including surgical site infections (SSI), and she has been an investigator in the CDC’s Prevention Epicenters research program. In addition, she has participated in CDC- and NIH-funded research evaluating the application of a space-time permutation scan statistic to clinical microbiology data from hospitalized patients to identify meaningful clusters of infections.

Publications

A Trial of Automated Outbreak Detection to Reduce Hospital Pathogen Spread.

NEJM evidence

Baker MA, Septimus E, Kleinman K, Moody J, Sands KE, Varma N, Isaacs A, McLean LE, Coady MH, Blanchard EJ, Poland RE, Yokoe DS, Stelling J, Haffenreffer K, Clark A, Avery TR, Sljivo S, Weinstein RA, Smith KN, Carver B, Meador B, Lin MY, Lewis SS, Washington C, Bhattarai M, Shimelman L, Kulldorff M, Reddy SC, Jernigan JA, Perlin JB, Platt R, Huang SS

Introduction to A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections In Acute-Care Hospitals: 2022 Updates.

Infection control and hospital epidemiology

Yokoe DS, Advani SD, Anderson DJ, Babcock HM, Bell M, Berenholtz SM, Bryant KA, Buetti N, Calderwood MS, Calfee DP, Deloney VM, Dubberke ER, Ellingson KD, Fishman NO, Gerding DN, Glowicz J, Hayden MK, Kaye KS, Kociolek LK, Landon E, Larson EL, Malani AN, Marschall J, Meddings J, Mermel LA, Patel PK, Perl TM, Popovich KJ, Schaffzin JK, Septimus E, Trivedi KK, Weinstein RA, Maragakis LL

Executive Summary: A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute-Care Hospitals: 2022 Updates.

Infection control and hospital epidemiology

Yokoe DS, Advani SD, Anderson DJ, Babcock HM, Bell M, Berenholtz SM, Bryant KA, Buetti N, Calderwood MS, Calfee DP, Dubberke ER, Ellingson KD, Fishman NO, Gerding DN, Glowicz J, Hayden MK, Kaye KS, Klompas M, Kociolek LK, Landon E, Larson EL, Malani AN, Marschall J, Meddings J, Mermel LA, Patel PK, Perl TM, Popovich KJ, Schaffzin JK, Septimus E, Trivedi KK, Weinstein RA, Maragakis LL

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection prevention practices that exceed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance: Balancing extra caution against impediments to care.

Infection control and hospital epidemiology

Gohil SK, Septimus E, Sands KE, Blanchard EJ, Moody J, de St Maurice A, Yokoe D, Kwon J, Grein J, Cohen S, Uslan D, Vasudev M, Mauricio A, Mabalot S, Coady MH, Sljivo S, Smith K, Carver B, Poland R, Perlin J, Platt R, Huang SS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epicenters Program

The Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare-Associated Infections.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Baker MA, Sands KE, Huang SS, Kleinman K, Septimus EJ, Varma N, Blanchard J, Poland RE, Coady MH, Yokoe DS, Fraker S, Froman A, Moody J, Goldin L, Isaacs A, Kleja K, Korwek KM, Stelling J, Clark A, Platt R, Perlin JB, CDC Prevention Epicenters Program

A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 updates.

Infection control and hospital epidemiology

Yokoe DS, Anderson DJ, Berenholtz SM, Calfee DP, Dubberke ER, Ellingson KD, Gerding DN, Haas JP, Kaye KS, Klompas M, Lo E, Marschall J, Mermel LA, Nicolle LE, Salgado CD, Bryant K, Classen D, Crist K, Deloney VM, Fishman NO, Foster N, Goldmann DA, Humphreys E, Jernigan JA, Padberg J, Perl TM, Podgorny K, Septimus EJ, VanAmringe M, Weaver T, Weinstein RA, Wise R, Maragakis LL

A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Updates.

American journal of infection control

Yokoe DS, Anderson DJ, Berenholtz SM, Calfee DP, Dubberke ER, Ellingson KD, Gerding DN, Haas JP, Kaye KS, Klompas M, Lo E, Marschall J, Mermel LA, Nicolle LE, Salgado CD, Bryant K, Classen D, Crist K, Deloney VM, Fishman NO, Foster N, Goldmann DA, Humphreys E, Jernigan JA, Padberg J, Perl TM, Podgorny K, Septimus EJ, VanAmringe M, Weaver T, Weinstein RA, Wise R, Maragakis LL

A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 updates.

Infection control and hospital epidemiology

Yokoe DS, Anderson DJ, Berenholtz SM, Calfee DP, Dubberke ER, Ellingson KD, Gerding DN, Haas JP, Kaye KS, Klompas M, Lo E, Marschall J, Mermel LA, Nicolle LE, Salgado CD, Bryant K, Classen D, Crist K, Deloney VM, Fishman NO, Foster N, Goldmann DA, Humphreys E, Jernigan JA, Padberg J, Perl TM, Podgorny K, Septimus EJ, VanAmringe M, Weaver T, Weinstein RA, Wise R, Maragakis LL

Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals.

Infection control and hospital epidemiology

Anderson DJ, Kaye KS, Classen D, Arias KM, Podgorny K, Burstin H, Calfee DP, Coffin SE, Dubberke ER, Fraser V, Gerding DN, Griffin FA, Gross P, Klompas M, Lo E, Marschall J, Mermel LA, Nicolle L, Pegues DA, Perl TM, Saint S, Salgado CD, Weinstein RA, Wise R, Yokoe DS