Infection Management for Geriatrics in Long-Term Care Facilities

Thomas T. Yoshikawa is Provost/Chief Operating Officer and Acting President, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, California. Dr. Yoshikawa is a member of several professional organizations within the field of internal medicine, infectious diseases, microbiology, geriatrics, and gerontology. He was a member of the first American Board of Internal Medicine Geriatric Test Committee for (the added qualification in) Geriatric Medicine. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. He has published over 185 scientific articles, 16 books, and 71 book chapters. Dr. Yoshikawa received the B.A. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and theM.D. degree from the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor. He completed an internship and an internal medicine residency as well as an infectious disease fellowship at Harbor-University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Torrance, California. Joseph G. Ouslander is Professor of Medicine and Nursing, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia. He also serves as the Director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Chief Medical Officer of Wesley Woods Center, and Director of the Emory Center for Health in Aging. Dr. Ouslander's primary areas of research interest are geriatric urinary conditions and long-term care quality. He has published more than 100 original research articles and book chapters, as well as edited special volumes on these topics. He is Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Dr. Ouslander serves or has served as a consultant to Novartis, Pfizer, Watson, Indevus, Esprit, and Amgen. Dr. Ouslander received the B.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and the M.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, where he completed an internal medicine residency. He also completed a fellowship in geriatric medicine at the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, California.