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Physician-in-Chief and Chairman, Department of Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MassachusettsRobert C. Moellering, Jr., M.D. is the Herrman Ludwig Blumgart Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Physician-in-Chief and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Boston, Massachusetts. In his current position, Dr. Moellering serves as chairman of one of the major academic departments of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Trained as an infectious diseases specialist, Dr. Moellering has been actively involved in laboratory research for the past 30 years. His work includes numerous studies of the mechanism of action and mechanisms of resistance to antimicrobial agents. He has defined some of the important mechanisms of interaction of antimicrobial agents, particularly against the enterococcus which has been a particular investigative interest for many years. He was the first to define the clinical utility of penicillin/gentamicin therapy for enterococcal endocarditis and he and his laboratory colleagues have defined many of the important mechanisms of resistance to antimicrobial agents in this increasingly important organism. More recently he and his colleagues have been investigating the mechanisms of resistance to vancomycin and oxazolidinones in Staphylococcus aureus and are studying the basis for pathogenesis in enterococci and staphylococci. His work is reported in over 350 publications in scientific journals.Dr. Moellering received his M.D. degree cum laude from Harvard Medical School and served as a medical intern and resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital where he was also a fellow in infectious diseases prior to joining the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital and the faculty of Harvard Medical School in 1970. He served as chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Deaconess Hospital from 1981 to 1996 and was the Shields Warren-Mallinckrodt Professor of Medical Research at Harvard Medical School from 1981 to 1999. Until recently, he also served as president and CEO of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the faculty multispecialty practice group at BIDMC. Dr. Moellering received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Valparaiso University in 1980 and is also the recipient of the Garrod Medal from the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, the Feldman Award and the Maxwell Finland Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America of which he served as President from 1990-1991, and the Hoechst-Roussel Award from the American Academy of Microbiology. Dr. Moellering is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Academy of Microbiology and the American College of Physicians, and has been elected to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Master of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine. He is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Editor of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, and Editor of the European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. | 