Allison J. McGeer
Microbiologist, Infectious Disease Consultant, Department of Microbiology
Mount Sinai Hospital
(Toronto, ON)
Allison
J. McGeer is Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Medicine
and Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto, and the Director
of Infection Control at the Mount Sinai Hospital.
Dr. McGeer holds an undergraduate and master's degree in biochemistry as well as a medical degree from the University of Toronto and has trained in hospital epidemiology at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. Her research interests include infection prevention in hospitals and nursing homes, and the epidemiology of serious bacterial and viral diseases.
Dr. McGeer currently serves on Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization and on the infection control subcommittee of the Ontario Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee, and is a member of several local, provincial and national pandemic influenza committees. She is an expert reviewer for many research funding agencies including the Canadian Institute of Health Research and US National Institutes of Health, and has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Canadian Medical Association Journal, and Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
(08/07)