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RID COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Members of the RID Board of Directors are notated with an asterisk (*)

Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D. *
Chairman, Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID)
Former Lt. Governor of New York State

Kenneth S. Abramowitz
Managing General Partner, NGN Capital

Dr. Jeffrey S. Borer
Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine, and Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine; Director, The Howard Gilman Institute for Heart Valve Disease and The Cardiovascular Translational Research Institute, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center

Tina Brown
Publisher

Charles Brunie *
Investor

Henry Buhl *
Founder and President, Soho and Tribeca Partnerships

John Catsimatidis
Chairman & CEO, Red Apple Group

Ilene Corina
Founder and Co-President, PULSE

Sir Harold Evans
Publisher

Dr. Alan Jasper
Chairman of the Department of Critical Care Medicine and Former Chief of Staff, St. Vincent's Medical Center in Los Angeles

Elizabeth R. Kabler
The Rosenstiel Foundation

Joel Kassimir *
Dermatologist

Dr. Brian Koll
Beth Israel Hospital

Herbert London, Ph.D.
President, Hudson Institute


Consuelo Mack
Television journalist

Richard Meier
Richard Meier & Partners

Jeffrey Moses *
Professor of Medicine, Director, Interventional Cardiology service for NYP/University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell

Dr. Carlene Muto
Director of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Rodney Nichols
Past President, New York Academy of Sciences

Dr. Stephen J. O'Brien
Vice Chairman of the Sports Medicine Department, Hospital for Special Surgery
Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Cornell University Medical Center

Lawrence Phillips
Philanthropist

Laurel Pickering
Executive Director, New York Business Group on Health

Richard Ravitch
Real Estate Developer, Former Chairman of the MTA

Jeremy Schaap
Journalist
Son of journalist Dick Schaap, who died of a hospital infection

Dr. Richard Shannon
Chairman of the Department of Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA

Esther Stedman
Wife of hospital infection victim Jerome Stedman

Lynn Syms
Retailer

Donald Tober *
Chairman & CEO, Sugar Foods Corporation

Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H. *
Founder and President, American Council on Science and Health

Sanford F. Young, Esq.
Of Counsel

 


NY State Reports HAIs
September 2011

 

 

January 10, 2012
RID FEATURED

 




"The Infection Eaters"

A powerful new biotherapy using amoebas that feast on antibiotic-resistant bacteria


November 2, 2011
RID FEATURED

October 25, 2011
BY LAURA LANDRO

Wall Street Journal

Hospital Water Hit by Bacteria

September 19, 2011
BY PERVAIZ SHALLWANI


 

 

January 5, 2011

RID offers important advice on how to prevent C. Diff.

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Six Minutes to Save Your Life

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April 16, 2011

New York State Infection Rate Report






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