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Dr. Darren Linkin, M.D., M.S.C.E.
Dr. Linkin is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, a Senior Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, and the Hospital Epidemiologist for the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. His medical degree is from the University of Chicago; his medicine residency and infectious diseases fellowship training were at Penn. After serving as an Instructor, he became an Assistant Professor at Penn in July of 2007. He is in the Clinician-Educator track. Dr. Linkin's research focus is on the relationship between antimicrobial prescribing and antimicrobial resistance in the hospital setting. He is PI of an NIH K23 grant examining the infectious complications of hospital-acquired pneumonia, and of an NIH R21 study testing a prescribing intervention to decrease hospital antimicrobial resistance in P. aeruginosa. He is a co-investigator on the Penn CERT center grant from AHRQ and project director for one of four core projects in the grant. He is also co-investigator on other grants including a CDC project examining an intervention to limit the spread of extended-spectrum ß-lactamase resistant E. coli in the hospital. He is author of 15 research publications, nine as first or senior author. He frequently presents his research at national meetings including the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, for which he also serves on a committee. He is a reviewer for major medical journals including the Annals of Internal Medicine and the Journal of Infectious Diseases. He is part of an eight person "Expert Panel" that has developed guidelines for the national MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) program in the Veterans Health Administration. He also serves as a consultant for the FDA Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee.
Selected publications:
Lee I, Thompson S, Lautenbach E, Gasink LB, Watson B, Fishman NO, Chen Z, Linkin DR: Effect of Accessible Influenza Vaccination on the Rate of Daycare Staff Vaccination. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29(5): 465-467, May 2008.
Haynes K, Hennessy S, Morales KH, Gibson GA, Barnhart C, Jaipaul CK, Linkin DR: Inter-rater Reliability of a Classification System for Hospital Adverse Drug Event Reports. Clin Pharmacol Ther Nature Publishing Group, 83(3): 485-488, Mar 2008.
Ward LD, Spain CV, Perilla MJ, Morales KH, Linkin DR: Improving Public Health Reporting by Clinicians: The Effect of an Internet-Based Intervention J Public Health Manag Pract 14(1): 56-61, Jan 2008.
Linkin DR, Fishman NO, Landis JR, Barton TD, Gluckman S, Kostman J, Metlay JP: The Effect of Communication Errors During Calls to an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28(12): 1374-1381, Dec 2007.
LaRosa LA, Fishman N, Lautenbach E, Koppel RJ, Morales K, Linkin DR: Evaluation of Antimicrobial Orders Circumventing an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program: Investigating the Strategy of "Stealth Dosing" Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28(5): 551-556, May 2007.
Cohen AE, Lautenbach E, Morales KH, Linkin DR: Fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli in the long-term care setting. American Journal of Medicine 119(11): 958-63, Nov 2006.
Linkin DR, Paris S, Fishman N, Metlay J, Lautenbach E: Inaccurate Communications in Telephone Calls to an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 27(7): 688-694, Jun 2006.
Linkin DR, Sausman C, Santos L, Lyons C, Fox C, Aumiller L, Esterhai J, Pittman B, Lautenbach E: Applicability of Healthcare Failure Mode and Effects Analysis to healthcare epidemiology: evaluation of the sterilization and use of surgical instruments. Clinical Infectious Diseases 41(7): 1014-9, Oct 2005.
Linkin DR, Brennan PJ: Infection Control and Patient Safety, (Chapter 25) in (Ed.) A Practical Handbook for Healthcare Epidemiologists, 2nd Edition. Slack, Inc. (Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America), Thorofare, New Jersey, 2004, pp. 297-304. Infection Control and Patient Safety (Chapter 25), A Practical Handbook for Healthcare Epidemiologists, 2nd Edition. Lautenbach E., Woeltje K. (eds.). Slack, Inc. (Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America), Thorofare, NJ, Page: 297-304, 2004.
Contact information:
711 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Primary email: pennlink@mac.com
Tel (Blockley) 215-898-8797
Tel (VA): 215-823-5800, x2561
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