Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease,
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Programs, School of Public Health
Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU)
Dr. Strnad completed his medical school training at Loma Linda University School of Medicine before switching coasts to Boston to complete his internal medicine residency and chief residency at the Beth Israel Deaconess Department of Medicine (BIDMC) where he became board certified in internal medicine. He then traveled back west for his infectious disease fellowship training at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) where he was also a chief fellow in the training program. He joined the OHSU infectious diseases faculty in 2016 where he is board certified in infectious diseases and currently serves as the Quality Improvement lead for the infectious diseases division.
Dr. Strnad is on the clinician educator faculty pathway within the department of medicine and spends time teaching in the medical school, internal medicine residency, and infectious disease fellowship programs as well as the affiliated OHSU/PSU School of Public Health. He was recognized for these efforts with a junior faculty teaching award from the internal medicine residency in 2017. Dr. Strnad is the co-director of the infectious diseases fellowship's HIV curriculum, the director of the infectious disease fellowship’s non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) elective and it’s non-ACGME Chronic Chest & Mycobacterial Infection Fellowship, a member of the fellowship’s clinical competency committee, a member the IDSA’s Community of Practice for Medical Education, and a member and advisory group member of OHSU's Educators Collaborative.
Dr. Strnad also has specific clinical and academic focuses in the areas of mycobacterial infections, Staphylococcus aureus infections, and infections in populations with active substance use. While in his infectious diseases fellowship at UCSF he worked with a tuberculosis (TB) research group, the San Francisco Department of Public Health tuberculosis clinic, and rotated at the California State TB program’s multi-drug resistant tuberculosis division. He currently does clinical TB work in conjunction with the Oregon State TB Program and non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) clinical and educational work at OHSU in collaboration with Dr. Kevin Winthrop and the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health Center for Infectious Diseases where he is a Co-PI on numerous studies regarding NTM disease. While in fellowship Dr. Strnad also initiated an ongoing quality improvement project area regarding Staph aureus bacteremia at UCSF, and now at OHSU oversees a quality improvement project and is the PI of a clinical cohort regarding Staph aureus bacteremia. He is currently is a member of the IDSA/ESCMID Clinical Practice Guidelines for Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia where he serves as the co-chair for the diagnostics sub-group of that guideline. Dr. Strnad is also involved in ongoing collaborative work with OHSU's addiction medicine program (IMPACT) in designing and evaluating different models of care for patients with active substance use disorders and concomitant bacterial infections.
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
Friday, October 23, 2020
4:15pm – 5:30pm EDT