Brian P. Currie is Vice President for Medical Research and Assistant Dean for Clinical Research, Montefiore Medical Center. He is a graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Bellevue Hospital / NYU and an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Einstein/Montefiore. Dr. Currie also received an MPH degree in epidemiology from the Columbia University School of Public Health. His research interests include the application of molecular epidemiology of nosocomial pathogens.