Hospital Epidemiologist
VA Portland Health Care System
Disclosure(s): Department of Defense/MedPace: Grant/Research Support
Since 2011, Dr. Christopher Pfeiffer, MD, MHS has served as the Hospital Epidemiologist at the VA Portland Health Care System (VAPORHCS) and as an ID physician rounding on both General and Transplant ID consult services at VAPORHCS and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). He currently serves as Chief of the ID section at VAPORHCS and is a Professor of Medicine at OHSU. In 2012, he began an ongoing collaboration with the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) as the Medical Director for Oregon’s Drug-Resistant Organism Prevention and Coordinated Regional Epidemiology (DROP-CRE) Network, renamed in 2025 to Statewide Taskforce for Antimicrobial Resistance (STAR) to better describe the expanded scope of the project. The primary goals of STAR are to plan and implement the statewide strategy to prevent, detect, and control the spread of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) with a focus on carbapenemase-producing organisms (CPOs) and Candida auris in Oregon.