Dr. Mody is the Amanda Sanford Hickey Professor of Internal Medicine at University of Michigan, PI of the Infection Prevention in Aging Research Group, and Associate Director of Translational Research for the Geriatrics Center. She is one of very few internists in this country with an expertise in aging populations, epidemiology, an active wet research laboratory in microbiology, and a translational research agenda focused on vulnerable aging population. She has mentored several junior faculty, fellows, post-doctoral students and residents in conducting clinical, epidemiologic as well as laboratory-based research projects and has had uninterrupted NIH funding since 2003. Her work is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Veteran Affairs (VA) and various foundations.

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• September 15, 2019 Inverse: Human-Fueled Superbugs Are Putting This Intelligent Animal in Danger
• July 2019 ACP Hospitalist: Patient and physician hygiene go hand in hand
• April 2019 UofMHealth: ‘Superbugs’ Found on Patients’ Hands and What They Touch
• April 2019 University of Michigan IHPI: The fight against ‘superbugs’ in hospitals has a new battlefield: patients’ hands and high-touch objects
• April 16, 2019 Infection Control Today: Superbugs Found on Many Hospital Patients’ Hands and What They Touch Most Often
• April 15, 2019 University of Minnesota CIDRAP: Study finds drug-resistant pathogens fairly common on patients’ hands
• April 15, 2019 New York Post: ‘Superbug’ germs found all over hospital patients’ hands: study
• April 15, 2019 Fox News: ‘Superbug’ germs found all over hospital patients’ hands: study
• April 15, 2019 MSN: Hospital Patients Are Spreading Superbugs
• April 15, 2019 Becker’s Healthcare: 14% of new hospital patients harbor superbugs: 4 study findings
• April 14, 2019 ScienceDaily: ‘Superbugs’ found on many hospital patients’ hands and what they touch most often
• April 2019 The Guardian: Curtains in patients’ rooms often rife with drug-resistant germs – study
• April 12, 2019 The Straits Times: Privacy curtains at hospitals could be reservoir of deadly bacteria: Study
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• April 11, 2019 CTV News: Hospital privacy curtains harbour antibiotic-resistant germs: study