In addition to being a Professor for the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina's School of Medicine, Dr. Bill Rutala serves as the Director of Hospital Epidemiology, Occupational Health and Safety Program at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. He is also Director and co-founder of the North Carolina Statewide Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology at the UNC School of Medicine and a retired Colonel with the U.S. Army Reserve. Dr. Rutala is certified in infection control. He is an advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (a former member of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee), the Food and Drug Administration (a member of the General Hospital and Personal Use Devices Panel), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Antimicrobial Research Strategies for Disinfectants) and the Federal Trade Commission. Dr. Rutala is a member of various committees on the local, state, national and international level as well as several professional societies including the American Society for Microbiology, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America. He serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Infection Control and Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. He has over 350 publications in the fields of infection control, disinfection, sterilization and medical waste. Dr. Rutala has also been a guest lecturer at over 230 state, national and international conferences and has testified before the U.S. Congress. Dr. Rutala earned his Bachelor of Science degree in biological sciences from Rutgers University, his master's degree in microbiology from the University of Tennessee and both his master's in public health and doctorate in microbiology from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health.
Web site by Dr. Rutala disinfectionandsterilization.org
