Senior Fellows

John E. McGowan, Jr., MD

Dr. McGowan is a Professor of Epidemiologyand Global Health at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. He is also Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine.

His primary research interest is the epidemiology of antibacterial resistance, especially as it applies to the healthcare setting, and as it is affected by antimicrobial use and appropriate diagnostic testing.  For several years, his  main research effort was Project ICARE, a cooperative study with CDC on antimicrobial resistance.

He graduated from Dartmouth and Harvard Medical School and trained at Boston City Hospital, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  He has been at Emory since 1973.  He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Medical Microbiology.  Dr. McGowan worked from 1973-1998 at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, where he was an Infectious Diseases Physician, Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory and Chair of the Infection Control Service Team.

Dr. McGowan has served on the Governing Boards of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Society for Microbiology.  He was active in the formation of, and served as first President of, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.  He has been associate editor or served on the editorial board of several medical journals, and has been author or co-author of more than 250 papers, books, or book chapters in the medical literature.

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