MarkAShellyMD(He/Him)

Epidemiologist for Geisinger, System Medical Director of Infection Prevention

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100 N Academy Ave
Danville, PA 17822
Phone+1 570-214-5060

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Dr. Mark Shelly is an infectious disease specialist based in Danville, PA. He completed his medical education at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in 1986 and undertook his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Rochester from 1986 to 1989. He currently serves as an Epidemiologist at Geisinger Health Physicians since 2018 and as Director of the Infectious Disease Unit and Hospital Epidemiology at Highland Hospital since 1992. His expertise includes wound management, emerging infectious diseases, C. difficile infection, and nosocomial bacteremia. He has numerous publications in high-profile journals, including studies on blood culture use and strategies to combat healthcare-associated infections. He has also received CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification from EpicCare in 2012.

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012

PubMed

Blood Culture Use in Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Units and Wards.
Valeria Fabre, Yea-Jen Hsu, Karen C Carroll, Alejandra B Salinas, Avinash Gadala
JAMA Network Open. 2025-01-02
A call to action: the SHEA research agenda to combat healthcare-associated infections.
Jennie H Kwon, Sonali D Advani, Westyn Branch-Elliman, Barbara I Braun, Vincent Chi-Chung Cheng
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2024-10-25
2 citations
Acremonium (Sarocladium) periprosthetic joint infection: case report, literature review, and proposed antifungal regimen.
Nikko Rowe A Tabliago, David Maish, Raquel M Martinez, Mark A Shelly, Bridget Yablonski
BMC Infectious Diseases. 2022-12-29

In a Global Pandemic, It's a Good Year to Get a Flu ShotAugust 24th, 2020
3 Infants Die at Pennsylvania Hospital from Waterborne InfectionOctober 8th, 2019
Hospital Warns of Waterborne Bacteria After 3 Infants DieOctober 8th, 2019
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