Chief of Staff
South Texas Veterans Healthcare System
San Antonio, TX, United States
Heather Comer Yun, MD, FACP, FIDSA, a board-certified internist and infectious disease specialist, currently serves as the Chief of Staff at South Texas Veterans Health Care System. She is a Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and Adjoint Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at UTHealth San Antonio. She is a retired United States Air Force colonel and previously served as the Deputy Commander for Medical Services at Brooke Army Medical Center.
Her research has focused on multidrug-resistant bacteria, infection prevention and hospital epidemiology, travel- and deployment-related infections, and respiratory viral infections. She has served as Medical Director of Infection Prevention at two referral military hospitals and while deployed to Afghanistan.
Dr. Yun is on the Board of Directors for the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Board of Trustees for the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, and has previously served on the IDWeek Program Committee, the ABIM Infectious Disease Board, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America and has received numerous teaching and leadership awards.
Dr. Yun earned her bachelor’s degree at Colorado College and her medical degree at Yale University. She completed residency and infectious disease fellowship training at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose.
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