Christine E. Kistler, MD, MASc is an Associate Professor of the Department of Family Medicine with a joint appointment in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has additional quality improvement training through the Veterans’ Affairs Quality Scholars program. She was the founding Medical Director for the UNC Home-based Palliative Care Program, and worked in nursing homes, assisted living communities, and patients’ homes for almost a decade. She has helped conduct several studies to improve infection control in long-term care, including an R01 to examine nursing and physician prescribing for suspected urinary tract infections in nursing home residents.
Dr. Zachary (Zach) Willis, MD, MP is the Director of the Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at UNC Health and is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Infectious Disease at UNC School of Medicine. Dr. Willis’s research is primarily focused on promotion of appropriate use of antibiotics in children in both inpatient and outpatient settings. He also studies the epidemiology and prevention of antibiotic-associated complications. In his role as the director of the pediatric antimicrobial stewardship program for UNC Health Care, Dr. Willis closely follows the epidemiology of highly drug-resistant organisms and current evidence-based strategies for optimal treatment.
James W. (Jim) Johnson, PharmD, BCPS [AQ-ID] completed his pharmacy training at the University of Colorado and the Medical University of South Carolina. His clinical practice in Infectious Diseases pharmacotherapy spanned 29 years at two North Carolina Health Systems. He enjoyed caring for both inpatients and ambulatory patients to help optimize the use of antimicrobial medications. He participated in the antimicrobial stewardship effort in the Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Health system for 21 years. Jim enjoys mentoring trainees and colleagues and holds adjunct associate professor status in medicine at the Wake Forest School of Medicine and in pharmacy at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. His interests include antimicrobial pharmacotherapy, antimicrobial pharmacokinetics, viral infections, and antimicrobial stewardship.
Danielle Doughman, MSPH, is a project manager with North Carolina Clinical Antibiotic Stewardship Partners. She is also a senior program manager with the Carolina Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at the University of North Carolina Medical Center. She has 20 years of experience working in health and development at the state, national, regional, and global levels. Publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2052-4640.
Elizabeth Thomas, MPH, is a project manager with North Carolina Clinical Antibiotic Stewardship Partners. She has a background in maternal and child health, strategic communications, and community engagement and assessment.