Dr. Xiaoyan Song will be giving this presentation on infectious diseases in a global setting.
Xiaoyan Song, Ph.D., MBBS, M.Sc., is the director of the Infection Control/Epidemiology at Children’s National Hospital and an Investigator in the Children’s National Research Institute. The epidemiologist infection control program is involved in surveillance, prevention, and control of infection. Dr. Song is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Song received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and her medical training from Wuhan Medical University in China. In 2007, she joined Children’s National Hospital to lead the Infection Control program. Under her leadership, the Children’s National received the inaugurate award by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) for eliminating central line associated bloodstream infections in 2011. In 2014, the hospital was designated by HHS as one of the five pediatric Ebola treatment centers nationwide. In 2016, Dr. Song was selected to serve as a member of the District of Columbia Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Prevention Advisory Committee. In 2018, she was appointed as the Chair of the External Affair Committee with the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
