Chair, Infectious Disease Division
Summa Health
Thomas File, Jr., MD, FIDSA, is the Chair of the Infectious Disease Division and Co-Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Summa Health, Akron, Ohio and is also the Professor of Medicine, Master Teacher and Chair of the Infectious Disease Section of the Northeast Ohio Medical University.
Dr. File’s research interests include randomized clinical trials for safety and efficacy of new antimicrobials, community-acquired pneumonia and the impact of new diagnostics and antimicrobial stewardship on patient outcomes. He is very involved in antimicrobial stewardship and his institution has been designated as an IDSA Antimicrobial Stewardship Centers of Excellence.
Dr. File is very active in IDSA having served on several committees such as the IDSA/National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) Joint Research Awards Committee, Clinical Subcommittee of Pulmonary Diseases, and the Practice Guidelines Committee. He was also the Chair of the Practice Guidelines Committee from 2005-2008 and a member of the Board of IDSA from 2008-2011. Dr. File also received the Watanakunakorn Clinician Award from IDSA in 2013.
As an advocate for using IDSA’s Clinical Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases, Dr. File also participates in several panels like the Influenza Guideline panel, the Sinusitis Guideline panel, the Community-Acquired Pneumonia Guideline panel and the Hospital-Associated Guideline panel.
After graduating from the University of Michigan School of Medicine, Dr. File became an intern and Resident in Internal Medicine at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He continued his studies as a Fellow in Infectious Diseases and earned his MSc in Medical Microbiology at Ohio State University.
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Thursday, October 22, 2020
10:30am – 11:00am EDT
Thursday, October 22, 2020
3:45pm – 5:00pm EDT
Friday, October 23, 2020
2:45pm – 4:00pm EDT
Friday, October 23, 2020
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