Edward J. Septimus President: Edward J. Septimus, M.D., F.I.D.S.A, F.A.C.P, F.S.H.E.A.

Dr. Ed Septimus is originally from New York City. He received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in 1972. Dr. Septimus went on to complete his postgraduate training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. For the next 30 years Dr. Septimus practiced infectious diseases where he formed a 3 person specialty group in infectious diseases in Houston. He was also medical director of infectious diseases and employee health at Memorial Hermann Healthcare System until November 2005. Dr. Septimus then moved to Montana to become Medical Director of Patient Safety and Infection Control at Billings Clinic. His current position is Medical Director Infection Prevention and Epidemiology Clinical Services Group HCA Healthcare System. He has just finished a 3 year term on the Board of Directors of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), and is on the IDSA Quality Improvement Task Force, and IDSA Antimicrobial Resistance Work Group. He has also served on the IDSA Clinical Affairs Committee, IDSA Program Committee, and IDSA State and Regional Board including chair for two years. He was the first recipient of the IDSA Annual Clinician Award. He served on the Houston Medical Advisory Steering Committee on Terrorism and the MRSA Work Group for the Texas Department of Health and recently was appointed to the Infectious Diseases Workgroup for the Texas Department of Health and the FDA Anti-Infective Drug Advisory Group. He holds a faculty position as Clinical Professor at Texas A&M Medical School and Affiliate Professor, Distinguished Senior Fellow, School of Public Health, George Mason University.

He also serves on the Leading Practice Advisory Panel for VHA, the Board International Society for Antimicrobial Resistance, the SHEA/IDSA Antimicrobial Stewardship Task Force and the SHEA HCW Influenza Vaccine Working Group. Current interests include patient safety, infection prevention, public health, sepsis, medical informatics, clinical integration, and human factors engineering. Dr. Septimus has lectured nationally and internationally on surviving sepsis, reduction of healthcare-associated infections, antimicrobial stewardship, MRSA, the economic case for quality, and employee health.

Past President: Duane Russell Hospenthal, MD, PhD

Dr. (Colonel) Hospenthal currently serves as the Infectious Disease Consultant to the US Army Surgeon General, and Chief of the Infectious Disease Service at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He currently holds academic appointments at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland (Professor of Medicine), and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (Clinical Professor of Medicine). Dr. Hospenthal earned his undergraduate, graduate and medical degrees from Michigan State University, and completed his postgraduate training (internal medicine and infectious diseases) at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. He has served in the US Army since 1984, with previous assignments at the 121st General Hospital in Seoul, South Korea (Chief, Internal Medicine, 1994-1995) and Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii (Assistant Chief, Infectious Disease, 1998-2001). COL Hospenthal is the clinical champion for the Infectious Disease Theater (deployment) Teleconsultation Service and also currently serves as the Department of Defense representative to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases Board of Scientific Counselors (CDC CCID BSC, 2004- ). He is a current member of the Standards and Practice Guidelines Committee (2007-2010) and a past member of the State and Regional Societies Board (2004-2007) of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). He has served as Secretary-Treasurer, Vice President, and President of the Armed Forces Infectious Diseases Society (AFIDS, 2001-2004) and currently serves as its webmaster (www.afids.org, 1997- ) and Army Councilor (2005- ). Dr. Hospenthal has nearly 200 publications and has served as editor of his own textbook (Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Mycoses) and several journal supplements.

Past President: Jan E. Patterson, MD, FACP

Dr. Patterson is Interim Chair of Medicine, Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Infectious Diseases, at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She has been at the institution since 1993 when she moved from Yale University School of Medicine where she was on the faculty in Infectious Diseases. She is an AOA M.D. graduate from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, completed her Internal Medicine residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and a postdoctoral fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Yale University School of Medicine. She was Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Laboratory Medicine there, and served as Associate Hospital Epidemiologist for Yale-New Haven Hospital and Hospital Epidemiologist at the West Haven Veterans Affairs Hospital in West Haven, Connecticut prior to coming to San Antonio. She served as Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine before becoming Interim Chair, and has also served as the Chief of Medicine at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System from 2004-06.

She is active in the field of hospital epidemiology and infectious diseases, and served as Medical Director of Infection Control at the University Health System and South Texas Veterans Health Care System for 13 years. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and has a Certificate of Knowledge in Tropical Medicine and Travelers’ Health. She is active at the national level in professional organizations including the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and American Committee on Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers Health of the American Society of Tropical Medicine. She was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Infectious Disease Society of America. She has been a consultant and advisor to the Regional Emergency Medical Preparedness Steering Committee in San Antonio and Medical Director of the Infection Control Workgroup of the Emergency Hospital Disaster Group. She is the author of numerous publications and has had an active research program in the fields of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance. In addition to her longstanding interest in hospital infections and antibiotic resistance, she is also interested in leadership, health policy and medical education.

Past President: Michael G. Rinaldi, PhD

Professor of Pathology, Medicine, Microbiology, and Clinical Laboratory Sciences Director, Fungus Testing Laboratory
Department of Pathology
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Chief, Clinical Microbiology Laboratories Director, Department of Veterans Affairs Mycology Reference Laboratory Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service
Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans' Hospital
Audie L. Murphy Division, South Texas Veterans Health Care System San Antonio , Texas



Treasurer: Richard Fetchick, MD

University of Miami School of Medicine 1980
Private Practice: San Antonio Infectious Diseases Consultants
Director of Clinical Research: SAIDC
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine UTHSC-SA



IDSA Liaison: Thomas F. Patterson, MD


CME committee:
Michael G. Rinaldi, PhD
John R. Graybill, MD
Jan E. Patterson, MD
Thomas F. Patterson, MD
Michelle M. Bailey
William R. Kirkpatrick
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