ASM has announced the appointment of Dr. Graeme Forrest, a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases at Rush University Medical Center, as the new Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of ASM’s Clinical Microbiology Reviews. Forrest will begin his term as EiC on July 1, 2022.
Clinical Microbiology Reviews® analyses the latest developments in clinical microbiology and immunology. Key topics include pathogenic mechanisms, individual and groups of microbial pathogens, clinical and laboratory aspects of newly recognized and re-emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial agents, and their applications and diagnostic laboratory technologies.
Forrest’s research focuses on antimicrobial stewardship and resistance in immunocompromised hosts. He completed residencies at Columbus Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago after earning a Bachelor Medicine, Bachelor Surgery (MBBS) from University of Adelaide, Australia. He completed his infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, where he stayed on as faculty for 7 more years. In 2008, Forrest moved to the Veterans Affairs (VA) Portland Health Care System and Oregon Health and Science University, where he served as director of the outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) program and provided VA outpatient services. He was chair of VA Portland Healthcare System’s Internal Review Board and an advisor for the Clinical Laboratory and Standards Institute (CLSI) breakpoint working group.
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