Ericka Hayes, MD
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases)
Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education
BS (Chemical Engineering)
Washington University in St. Louis, 1994.
MD (Medicine)
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, 1998.
Permanent linkBS (Chemical Engineering)
Washington University in St. Louis, 1994.
MD (Medicine)
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, 1998.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Pediatric and Perinatal HIVPrevention of vertical transmission of HIV
Infection Prevention
Epidemiology
Pediatric infectious diseases
Tickborne illness
Vaccines and vaccine preventable diseases
Pediatric global health
Emerging infectious diseases
Measles preparedness
Measles
Description of Other Expertise
Medical EducationDescription of Research Expertise
Infection Prevention and ControlHospital epidemiology
Surgical Site Infections
Healthcare associated viral infections
Harm prevention
Quality improvement
ORCID identifier 
0000-0003-3679-9881
Selected Publications
Theiller E, Rajagopol S, Higgins S, Torres DI, Napper T, Galis BE, Dash A, Qian E, Hamlette L, She Q, Tanes C, L'Etoile N, Feder A, Viana AS, Côrtes Esteves MA, Abt MC, Coffin SE, Hayes E, Potter RF, Zackular JP, Srinivasan L, Figueiredo AMS, Planet PJ, Moustafa AM.: Empowering global disease surveillance with CURED: a tool for rapid identification of unique genomic biomarkers. mSystems 11: e0106325, Apr 2026.Ericka Hayes, MD, Keri Cohn MD MPH DTM&H, Logan Grimes MD, Hee-won Yoon MPH CIC, Jenna Ercolani, MS, BSN, RN, CPHQ, Susan Ditaranto DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Scott Tomaine DO, Kathleen Filograna, MD, Lisa Biggs, MD Daneen Smith MSN RN NEA-BC, Deborah Smith, MHA, Regina L. Toto MD, MSEd, Matthew Butler, MS, MEP, Julia S. Sammons, MD MSCE, Sarah Smathers MPH, CIC, FAPIC : Getting Ready for the Storm: A Taskforce Approach to Measles Prevention and Readiness. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America National Meeting Spring 2026 April 2026.
Grimes L, Fink J, Elkan M, Llewellyn J, Patrick RC, Jernigan ALA, Liu BM, Smith KP, Harris RM, Hayes E, Potter RF.: Identifying intra-hospital Norovirus GII transmission using whole-genome sequencing. Genome Med 18: 42, Mar 2026.
She Q, Srinivasan L, Theiller E, Galis BE, Napper T, Feder A, Arvanitis A, Jones SM, Hayes E, Puopolo KM, Baldassano RN, David MZ, Coffin SE, Gibbs KA, Potter RF, Smith KP, Harris RM, Zackular JP, Moustafa AM, Planet PJ.: Rapid dissemination of Staphylococcus aureus in the neonatal intensive care unit is associated with invasive infection. Nat Commun 17: 2550, Feb 2026.
L'Etoile N, Li Y, Hayes E, Coffin SE.: Antimicrobial locks for the prevention of central line associated bloodstream infections in pediatric patients: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control 15: 34, Feb 2026.
Ericka Hayes: Kids Health update: Summer Means Ticks-The season is getting longer and worse, especially for Lyme disease in our area. County Lines Magazine July 2025.
L'Etoile N, Zalot MA, Sadaf S, Wittmeyer N, Davis A, Mick J, Hayes E, Gibbs KA, Coffin SE.: Healthcare-Associated Gastroenteritis: Outbreak Report and Systematic Review of the Literature. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc 14: piaf019, Apr 2025.
Nathan L'Etoile, Lindsay Brim, Susan Coffin, Ericka Hayes: Report of an outbreak of enterovirus disease in a neonatal intensive care unit and a systematic review of the literature. AIMS Microbiology. AIMS Press, 11(1): 167-181, February 2025.
Robert Potter,Rebecca Harris, Jeffrey Fink,Michael Elkan, Ericka Hayes, Jessica Llewellyn, Kenneth Smith: Identifying and interrupting intra-hospital Norovirus GII transmission. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring National Conference, 2025 2025.
Nathan L'Etoile, Yun Li, Cody Gladstone, Cindy Hoegg, Amanda Scott, Ericka Hayes, Susan Coffin, Logan Grimes: Will Walls Work: An Interrupted Time Series to Model Changes in Dust Burden After Architectural Changes. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Spring National Meeting 2025.