Medical contributor
Professor of Medicine; Director, Department of Antimicrobial Stewardship; Associate Hospital Epidemiologist
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Sara Cosgrove, MD, is a Medical contributor whose scope on this site is limited to antimicrobial stewardship, antimicrobial resistance, hospital epidemiology, and infectious diseases.
Antibiotic stewardship in the contributor scope
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Her source record identifies stewardship as a central area of program leadership.
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Her documented work includes resistance and the responsible use of antibiotics.
- Hospital epidemiology
- This topic aligns with her listed role as an associate hospital epidemiologist.
- Infectious diseases
- Infectious diseases is the clinical field recorded in her professional profile.
Background in infectious diseases
Sara Cosgrove, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine and directs the hospital's Department of Antimicrobial Stewardship. She has worked on antimicrobial resistance and the rational use of antibiotics for more than two decades.
Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins, with a joint appointment in Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School; Director of the Adult Antimicrobial Stewardship Program and Associate Hospital Epidemiologist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital; Director of Research for the ID Fellowship Program; FSHEA, FIDSA; ASCI (2020).
Education and professional appointment
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins Medicine
Position: Professor of Medicine; Director, Department of Antimicrobial Stewardship; Associate Hospital Epidemiologist
- Undergraduate, Columbia College, New York
- MD, Baylor College of Medicine, 1995
- MS in Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
- Residency, Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1998
- Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 2001
- Board certification, Infectious Disease, ABIM, 2001