Mount Pleasant Chamber of Commerce Monthly Luncheon: Dr. Michael Schmidt

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Join us virtually for our June luncheon! We'll have updates from the Town of Mount Pleasant and our Committees. This month's speaker features Michael G. Schmidt, Ph.D. a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology with the Medical University of South Carolina. His academic focus includes Pandemic Flu Preparations and Disaster Preparedness; Controlling Acquisition of Hospital Acquired Infections; and Bacterial Pathogenesis.

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Michael G. Schmidt earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington and rose through the ranks of MUSC achieving the rank of tenured professor of microbiology and immunology at the Medical University of South Carolina.  He was elected to fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology and the American College of Dentists. In 2017 he was selected as the South Carolina Governor’s Awardee for Excellence in Science and Scientific Awareness and in 2019 he was elected as Chair of the Council for Microbial Sciences.
Currently, he is leading an inter-institutional/ interdisciplinary team of professionals investigating the role that microbes associated with objects present in built clinical environments play in the acquisition of a healthcare associated infections (HCAI).  This group of infectious disease specialists, infection control professionals, architects and engineers are building on the success of a previous multi-center clinical trial where he and his colleagues established that by controlling burden in the built clinical environment, through the introduction of the limited and targeted placement of solid copper alloys, a significant reduction (58%, p<0.0013) of HCAI was achieved.   The results from this study were the basis of a talk he provided to TEDxCharleston, and featured in articles in the Smithsonian Magazine and Vice.  Finally, he is a regular contributor to the internationally recognized podcast This Week In Microbiology (TWiM)..

MPCC JUNE MONTHLY LUNCHEON AGENDA ​