Faculty | Infectious Diseases Division

Neil O. Fishman, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Associate Chief Medical Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System

Chief Patient Safety Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System

Department: Medicine

Contact information

706 Penn Tower
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 215-349-8592
Fax: 215-614-1968

Email:
FISHMAN@MAIL.MED.UPENN.EDU

Education:
BA (Molecular and Cellular Biology)
Haverford College, 1979.
M.D.
Temple University, 1983.
MA
Wharton Acaemic Medicine Leadership, 2008.
MA
Penn Medicine Leadership Forum, Wharton School of Business, 2009.

Post-Graduate Training
Intern in Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, 1983-1984.
Resident in Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, 1984-1986.
Clinical Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1988-1989.
Research Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1989-1992.

Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine, 1986.
Infectious Diseases Boards, 1990.
Infectious Disease Boards, 2005.

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Selected Publications

Yang RL, Reinke CE, Mittal MK, Kean CR, Fishman NO, Morris JB, Kelz RR: The surgery clerkship: an opportunity for preclinical credentialing in urinary catheterization Am J Surg 2012 Notes: Epub ahead of print.

Mascitti KB, Edelstein PH, Fishman NO, Morales KH, Faltus AJ, Lautenbach E: Prior vancomycin use is a risk factor for reduced vancomycin suscptibility in methicillin-susceptible but not methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 33: 160-6, 2012.

Fishman NO: Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Policy statement on antimicrobial stewardship by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the Infectious Disease Society of America and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 33: 322-7, 2012.

Fishman NO, Edelstein PH: Web site - Guidelines for antimicrobial therapy at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Website 2012 Notes: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/bugdrug/

Srinivasan A, Fishman N: Antimicrobial stewardship 2012: science driving practice. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 33: 319-21, 2012.

Behrman AJ, Caplan AL, Coffin SE, Fishman N: Doctors choosing not to be vaccinated is choosing to do harm. BMJ Page: 7198, 2011.

Finch R: BSAC Working Party on the Urgen Need: Regenerating Antibacterial Drug Discovery and Development. Regulator Opportunities to encourage technology solutions to antibacterial drug resistance. J Antimicrob Chemother Page: 1945-7, 2011 Notes: member of working group.

Loeb M, Eskandarian S, Rupp M, Fishman N, Gasink L, Patterson J, Bramson J, Hudson TJ, Lemire M: Genetic variants and susceptibility to neurological complications following West Nile virus infection. J Infect Dis 204: 1031-7, 2011.

White AR: BSAC Working Party on the Urgent Need: Regenerating Antibacterial Drug Discovery and Development. Effective Antibacterials: at what cost? The economics of antibacterial resistance and its control. J Antimicrob Chemother Page: 1948-53, 2011 Notes: member working group.

Rattanaumpawan P, Morales KH, Binkley S, Synnestvedt M, Weiner MG, Gasink LB, Fishman NO, Lautenbach E: Impact of antimicrobial stewardship programme changes on unnecessary double anaerobic coverage therapy. J Antimicrob Chemother 66: 2655-8, 2011.