Associate Professor
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX, United States
Dr. Pranavi Sreeramoju is an Associate Professor in Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, USA. In addition to providing clinical care and teaching trainees, she serves as academic colleges mentor for medical students, associate editor for the Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and serves on the Infectious Diseases Society of America Quality Improvement committee and the SHEA Quality Metrics taskforce. She is passionate about improving clinical care and healthcare delivery for all patients, and developing leaders in medicine and healthcare. She has served in various administrative roles in her career, most recently as Medical Director Clinical Finance at UT Southwestern, a role in which she championed financial efforts among clinicians and helped financial experts develop strategies that are meaningful from a clinical perspective. Prior to this role, she served as healthcare epidemiologist overseeing programs to prevent healthcare-associated infections and improve patient safety with respect to infections, at UT Southwestern as Chief of Infection Prevention at Parkland Health and Hospital System, and at UT Health in San Antonio.
She received her fellowship training in infectious diseases at the University of Chicago and University of Illinois at Chicago, an MPH in epidemiology from Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and an MBA in healthcare organizational leadership from UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management.
She was awarded Junior Faculty Researcher of the Year in Internal Medicine in 2007 at UT Health San Antonio, and Teacher of the Year in Infectious Diseases in 2011 at UTSW. She has been named as one of the ‘Top 50 leaders in Patient Safety in 2015’ by Becker’s Hospital Review and she is the recipient of Judene Bartley Award for Public Policy and Advocacy in 2015 jointly awarded by the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. She has mentored several residents, fellows, and students during her career. Most recently, she edited and published a book, The Patient and Health Care System: Perspectives on High-Quality Care. She loves blogging, traveling and reading.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
49 - Getting Started in Healthcare Epidemiology and Clinical Quality
Thursday, September 30, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM EDT
Introduction to Institutional Quality and Patient Safety
Thursday, September 30, 2021
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM EDT