Richard P. Wenzel
Richard Putnam Wenzel (* 1940 ) is an American doctor.
Wenzel grew up in Philadelphia and studied at Haverford College with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and at Thomas Jefferson University (Medical College) in Philadelphia. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Maryland . He also worked as a student in the Philippines and Bangladesh in the treatment of infectious diseases such as cholera. In 1972 he became an assistant professor and later professor at the University of Virginia , where he specialized in hospital infections. In 1981 he was the founding director of a Masters program in Hospital Epidemiology there.
In 1986 he became a professor at the University of Iowa and from 1995 to 2009 he was professor and director of internal medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University .
He was the first to describe the epidemiology of SIRS and was a pioneer in the United States in research into nosocomial infections and measures to prevent them. Wenzel initiated the blood bank monitoring program SCOPE (Surveillance and Control of Pathogens of Epidemiological Importance).
In 2010 he received the Maxwell Finland Award . In 1980 he founded the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology . From 1992 to 2000 he was on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine (and from 2001 its editor at large). He was president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
He also wrote medical detective novels (Labyrinth of Terror 2010).
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- Stalking Microbes, 2005
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wenzel, Richard P. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wenceslaus, Richard Putnam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |