MichaelSCalderwoodMDMPH

Summary

• Michael S. Calderwood, MD MPH is the Regional Hospital Epidemiologist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a hospital staff physician in the Section of Infectious Disease and International Health, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA where he served as the Assistant Hospital Epidemiologist and the Associate Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship. Dr. Calderwood has clinical and research expertise in hospital epidemiology, infection prevention, and antimicrobial stewardship. His primary research has involved collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Centers for Medicine and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). He has led multicenter and national studies seeking to improve the accuracy and validity of publicly reported data on healthcare associated infections, while also working to understand the effects of pay-for-reporting and pay-for-performance programs on hospital quality metrics in U.S. hospitals.