Daniel J. Diekema is Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Pathology at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. He is Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and serves as Associate Hospital Epidemiologist and Associate Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Dr. Diekema’s academic interests are in hospital epidemiology and clinical mycology. His current research interests include the control of antimicrobial-resistant bacterial pathogens (primarily MRSA and VRE), the epidemiology of invasive fungal infections in the healthcare setting, and the epidemiology of antifungal drug resistance among Candida spp. He wrote for NEJM Journal Watch Infectious Diseases from 2006 until 2014.

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