"The Hospital Water Environment: An Often-Overlooked Source of Hospital-Acquired Infections" 

Speaker:

Alainna Jamal, M.D., Ph.D.
Infectious Diseases Fellow
Massachusetts General Hospital
Brigham and Women's Hospital

About Alainna Jamal:

Dr. Jamal holds a bachelor's degree from the Univerisyt of Toronto, where she also earned her medical degree and a doctorate in epidemiology. She then completed internal medicine residency training at Toronto General Hospital.

As a physician-scientist, she investigates prevention and control of carbapenemase-producing Enerobacterales (CPEs), antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have been deemed a serious global threat. Her research, which employs epidemiological methods and genomics to track infections, highlights the danges of CPE transmission in medical settings.