Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) has hired Gabriela M. Andujar Vazquez, MD, as hospital epidemiologist. Andujar started her new position on January 20.
Andujar comes to DHMC from Tufts Medical Center in Boston, where she fellowship-trained in infectious diseases. She attended medical school at the Universidad Central del Caribe in Puerto Rico, followed by an internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Andujar also completed a clinical research certificate at the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the Tufts University Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences.
Andujar was one of the first awardees of the Leadership in Epidemiology, Antimicrobial Stewardship, and Public Health (LEAP) Fellowship, a national training award competitively granted to four promising young infectious disease physicians annually, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She served on the faculty in the division of geographic medicine and infectious diseases at Tufts Medical Center. During her time at Tufts Medicine, Andjuar served as associate hospital epidemiologist and director of the antimicrobial stewardship program for the main academic medical center in Boston.
Andujar is board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases. Her clinical interests include infectious prevention and control, hospital epidemiology, antimicrobial stewardship, antimicrobial resistance, management of outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics, and epidemiology of emerging pathogens.
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