Silvana B Carr

Silvana Carr is a consultant in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and director of the pediatric antibiotic stewardship program at University of Florida Shand’s Children Hospital in Gainesville. She has 9 years of experience in the practice of pediatric infectious diseases in academic hospitals, as well Her areas of interest are immunization, infectious diseases in immunocompromised patients, anti-microbial resistance and tropical diseases. Her clinical and academic interests include: strategies to improve patient outcome in cases of infection caused by multi-drug resistant micro-organisms and interventions to promote adequate use of anti-microbials in the clinical practice.