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Judith A. O’Donnell, M.D., FIDSA
Dr. O’Donnell is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases. She is also the Hospital Epidemiologist and Director, Department of Infection Prevention and Control and Healthcare Epidemiology, at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. She completed her Doctor of Medicine degree in 1989 at Temple University School of Medicine. Her Internal Medicine residency training and Infectious Diseases fellowship training were both completed at Temple University Hospital. She serves as a Steering Committee member and lecturer for the regional STD/HIV Prevention Training Center at Johns Hopkins University and the Baltimore Department of Public Health. She has also been recognized as a Fellow in the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Dr. O’Donnell’s areas of interest include healthcare-associated infections and their prevention, C. difficile disease, and sexually transmitted diseases. Dr. O’Donnell has previously participated in several STD-related research projects including being a member of the national CDC co-sponsored “Syphilis and HIV” study group, and the “Genital Ulcer Disease” study group. She provides both inpatient and outpatient Infectious Diseases consultative services at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.
Selected publications:
Rouphael NG, O’Donnell JA, Bhatnagar J, Lewis F, Polgreen PM, Beekman S, Guaran J, Killgore GE, Coffman B, Campbell J, Zaki GR, McDonald LC. Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea: an emerging threat to pregnant women. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2008;198:635-637.
O’Donnell, JA, Tunkel AR. Topical Antibacterials. In: Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, Sixth Edition. Mandell GL, Bennett JE, and Dolin,R, eds. Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone 2005:478-489.
O’Donnell JA, Emery CL. Neurosyphilis: A Current Review. Current Infectious Disease Reports 2005; 7: 277-84.
Contact:
Judith A. O’Donnell, M.D., FIDSA
Division of Infectious Diseases-PPMC, 4th Floor
3910 Powelton Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-662-8729
Fax: 215-243-3272
Email: odonneju@uphs.upenn.edu
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