John Burke, MD, FACP
Dr. Burke is Chief of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases at Intermountain Healthcare's LDS Hospital and is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah. He received his medical degree from the University of Iowa School of Medicine. He also completed an internal medicine residency under the direction of Dr. Paul B. Beeson at Yale University and a fellowship in infectious diseases, under Dr. Maxwell Finland, at the Harvard Medical School and Boston City Hospital. Dr. Burke completed a tour of duty as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in the Hospital Infections section at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Burke's primary research interests are in the epidemiology and prevention of adverse clinical outcomes, including hospital infections and adverse drug events, using computer-assisted decision support systems. He has been a Principal Investigator for RO1 research awards from the National Institutes of Health for a 20-year period. He has written, lectured, and consulted on clinical epidemiology, nosocomial infections, clinical process improvement, and computer-assisted decision-support systems. He recently edited the Nosocomial Infections section for Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases and is on the manuscript review panels of the American Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Annals of Pharmacotherapy, Archives of Internal Medicine, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Infectious Diseases, Lancet, and the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Burke is a member of the American Epidemiological Society and a Fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He is a founding member and former President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and has also been listed in the "Best Doctors in America" from 1992-2006.
