University of Utah
Departments of Clinical Epidemiology and Biomedical Informatics
380 South 1530 East
Room 502
Salt Lake City,
UT
USA
84112
Email:
matthew.samore@hsc.utah.edu
Biographical Sketch:
Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah and the Chief of the Division of Clinical Epidemiology. He attended the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, and his Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. His research interests include methods in infectious disease epidemiology, antibiotic resistance in hospitals and communities, computer-decision support for antibiotic prescribing and infection control, and surveillance of errors and adverse events. Dr. Samore is leading or participating in several randomized or quasi-experimental intervention trials that address antimicrobial resistance and other studies that apply computer-based approaches to surveillance and/or antibiotic prescribing. These include the CMS-funded RADAR (Rural Antibiotic Decision-Support And Resistance) project, the CDC-funded IMPART (Inter-Mountain Project on Antimicrobial Resistance and Therapy), an FDA sponsored study of adverse event surveillance, and the AHRQ-funded INFORM (Intelligent Network for Orders, Registry, and Management) project.
Recent Publications:
Ampofo K, Gesteland PH, Bender J, Mills M, Daly J, Samore M, Byington C, Pavia AT, Srivastava R.
Epidemiology, complications, and cost of hospitalization in children with laboratory-confirmed influenza infection.
Pediatrics. 2006 Dec;118(6):2409-17.
PMID: 17142526 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Rubin MA, Bateman K, Donnelly S, Stoddard GJ, Stevenson K, Gardner RM, Samore MH.
Use of a personal digital assistant for managing antibiotic prescribing for outpatient respiratory tract infections in rural communities.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 Nov-Dec;13(6):627-34. Epub 2006 Aug 23.
PMID: 16929045 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Madaras-Kelly KJ, Hannah EL, Bateman K, Samore MH.
Experience with a clinical decision support system in community pharmacies to recommend narrow-spectrum antimicrobials, nonantimicrobial prescriptions, and OTC products to decrease broad-spectrum antimicrobial use.
J Manag Care Pharm. 2006 Jun;12(5):390-7.
PMID: 16792446 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Erbay A, Ergonul O, Stoddard GJ, Samore MH.
Recurrent catheter-related bloodstream infections: Risk factors and outcome.
Int J Infect Dis. 2006 Sep;10(5):396-400. Epub 2006 May 15.
PMID: 16702008 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Samore MH, Venkataraman L, DeGirolami PC, Merrigan MM, Johnson S, Gerding DN, Carmeli Y, Harbarth S.
Genotypic and phenotypic analysis of Clostridium difficile correlated with previous antibiotic exposure.Microb Drug Resist. 2006 Spring;12(1):23-8.
PMID: 16584304 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Gundlapalli AV, Rubin MA, Samore MH, Lopansri B, Lahey T, McGuire HL, Winthrop KL, Dunn JJ, Willick SE, Vosters RL, Waeckerle JE, Carroll KC, Gwaltney JM Jr, Hayden FG, Elstad MR, Sande MA.
Influenza, Winter Olympiad, 2002.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Jan;12(1):144-6.
PMID: 16494733 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Nebeker JR, Virmani R, Bennett CL, Hoffman JM, Samore MH, Alvarez J, Davidson CJ, McKoy JM, Raisch DW, Whisenant BK, Yarnold PR, Belknap SM, West DP, Gage JE, Morse RE, Gligoric G, Davidson L, Feldman MD.
Hypersensitivity cases associated with drug-eluting coronary stents: a review of available cases from the Research on Adverse Drug Events and Reports (RADAR) project.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006 Jan 3;47(1):175-81. Epub 2005 Dec 1.
PMID: 16386683 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Samore MH, Lipsitch M, Alder SC, Haddadin B, Stoddard G, Williamson J, Sebastian K, Carroll K, Ergonul O, Carmeli Y, Sande MA.
Mechanisms by which antibiotics promote dissemination of resistant pneumococci in human populations.
Am J Epidemiol. 2006 Jan 15;163(2):160-70. Epub 2005 Nov 30.
PMID: 16319292 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]