Meet the Team
Dr. Deborah Stein - Executive Sponser
Deborah M. Stein MD, MPH, earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University, her Medical Degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and her Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health with certificates in both Injury Control and Heath Policy. She completed her general surgery residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a Fellowship in Trauma/Surgical Critical Care at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She is Board Certified in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care and has Subspecialty Certification from the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties in Neurocritical Care. She is a fellow in the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Critical Care Medicine
Dr. Mary Ghaffari, PharmD - Timely Antibiotic Administration, Director, Clinical Pharmacy Services for UMMS
Affiliations:
University of Maryland Medical System, Corporate Pharmacy Services
Education:
Pharmacy School:
South Dakota State University, Bachelor of Sciences – Pharmaceutical Sciences; 1999
South Dakota State University, Doctorate of Pharmacy; 2001
Residency:
Hennepin County Medical Center, Critical Care; 2001-2002
Certifications:
Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialties; 2003
Diplomat, Pharmacy Leadership Academy; 2020
Dr. Jason Heavner, MD - Infection Management, Pulmonary Critical Care, Critical Care Medicine UM Baltimore Washington Medical Center
Pulmonary Critical Care, Critical Care Medicine. UM Baltimore Washington Medical Center, Member of Baltimore Washington Medical Group
Medical School:
University of Maryland School of Medicine, 2008
Internship: Yale-New Haven Hospital, 2009
Residency: Yale-New Haven Hospital, 2012
Fellowship:
Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital , 2015
Certifications:
American Board of Internal Medicine – Critical Care Medicine, 2015
American Board of Internal Medicine – Pulmonary Disease, 2014
American Board of Internal Medicine – Internal Medicine, 2011
Dr. Kristie Johnson, PhD - Diagnostics Co-Lead | Director, Clinical Microbiology, Laboratories of Pathology, UMMC
Director, Clinical Microbiology, Laboratories of Pathology, University of Maryland Medical Center
Co-Director, University of Maryland Pathology Associates – Maryland Genomics COVID 19 Laboratory
Pathology
Microbiology and Immunology
Epidemiology & Public Health
Education:
Salisbury State University, Bachelor of Science – Biology, 1996
University of Maryland, Medical Academic Scholar Certificate Program – Clinical Microbiology, 2000
University of Maryland, Doctor of Philosophy – Microbiology/Immunology, 2002
Fellowship:
University of Maryland, Microbiology, 2003-2006
Dr. Kim Claeys - Co-Lead Rapid Diagnositcs, Associate Professor in Pharmacy Practice and Science Department
Dr. Kim Claeys is an Associate Professor in the Pharmacy Practice and Science Department at University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Additionally she serves as an Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Pharmacist at the University of Maryland Medical Center. In her role, she serves as the AMS liaison to the Clinical Microbiology laboratory, where they work to improve antibiotic susceptibility testing and reporting to aid in optimizing treatment of infectious diseases. Dr. Claeys is also completing a PhD, with her dissertation focused on Diagnostic Stewardship of healthcare-associated infections. She is a fellow of the newly established Center for Innovation in Diagnosis at University of Maryland School of Medicine and Scholar in Diagnostic Excellence with the National Academy of Science and Medicine (2022 – 2023).
Dr. Sam Tisherman
Professor of Surgery and the Program in Trauma, University of Maryland School of Medicine. Director of the Center for Critical Care and Trauma Education and the Director of the Surgical Intensive Care and Surgical Intermediate Care Units of the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Education
He completed his undergraduate degree in Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and medical school, general surgery residency, and surgical critical care fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh.
Certification
He is Board Certified in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care and has Subspecialty Certification from the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties in Neurocritical Care.
UMMS Sepsis Program would also like to recognize the work of Thomas Scalea, MD, FACS, MCCM and Samuel M. Galvagno, DO, PHD for their contributions to the program.