Associate Professor, Associate Hospital Epidemiologist
Central Virginia VA Healthcare System
Dr. Anthony W. Baffoe-Bonnie, MD, FIDSA, is Associate Hospital Epidemiologist and Infectious Diseases staff physician at the Central Virginia VA Healthcare System, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.
He previously served as Chief of Infectious Diseases and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Carilion Clinic, where he directed system-wide infection prevention, outbreak response, and antimicrobial stewardship programs across six hospitals and more than 200 outpatient facilities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he provided incident command subject matter expertise, created strategies to optimize PPE use and improve healthcare worker vaccination in his health system. In separate work, he led a multidisciplinary team that investigated and resolved widespread surgical instrument staining, improving sterile processing reliability and patient safety.
Dr. Baffoe-Bonnie’s scholarly work centers on antimicrobial stewardship, healthcare-associated infection prevention, and health systems quality improvement. He is co-principal investigator on funded projects advancing infection control in long-term care facilities, outpatient stewardship and hepatitis C care in southwest Virginia, and has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and national presentations. He was elected a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2023
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose.
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