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Expert is an active hospital epidemiologist working to prevent infections in the hospital setting. Currently, he is a principal investigator on a project to control line related bacteremia outside intensive care units. Other areas of concentration include Clostridium difficile infection, surgical space infections, hand hygiene compliance, and statistical and data methods in areas with small occurrence rates.

Expert received his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1986 and completed his residency in internal medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine and infectious disease.

As a specialist in travel and tropical medicine, Expert has prepared numerous conferences and has presented on various topics such as preparing for international travel as well as how to care for returning travelers, on blood and line infections, the basics of antibiotics, caring for long term fevers, preventing nosocomial infections and how to treat sepsis.

He is well versed in childhood vaccination, the principles of vaccines and how to improve vaccinations as well as assessing adult immunization. He is familiar with lyme disease and various other diseases caused by ticks. He has attended lectures and is knowledgeable about new diagnostic tests for hepatitis C as well as the new antibiotics and infectious disease updates in the medical field.

As a board certified Infectious Disease specialist, Expert is active in diagnosing and treating infections in hospital and office settings. Tropical medicine is an area of special interest, including preparing persons for travel and treating problems when they return. Expert teaches medicine in the university setting in the US, and travels regularly to Africa to lecture on Infectious Disease.

As an infectious disease expert, Expert has been the director of the Infectious Disease Unit at his affiliated hospital since 1992. He is familiar with tuberculosis and HIV infection and infectious disease morbidity and mortality. He is educated on wound care and wound care infections. He is always conscious of ways towards better infection control inside and outside of a clinic. He is currently analyzing clinical, research, epidemiologic and other healthcare problems using an exploratory data analysis device. He continues to promote efforts in advancing physicians and healthcare workers of hospital associated infections through various analysis and data reports.

He is currently assisting a research project investigating vaccines and antivirals, including vaccines for smallpox, influenza, RSV, pertussis and pneumococcal disease in order to evaluate the epidemiology and immunopathogenesis of infectious diseases in humans.

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