Jonathan Baghdadi, MD, PhD

• UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, PhD, Health Policy and Management, 2019
• New York University School of Medicine, MD, 2010
• Columbia College, BA, Chemistry, 2006

Dr. Baghdadi is an infectious disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) and UMMC-Midtown Campus. He chairs the Infection Prevention Committee and Sepsis Working Group at UMMC-Midtown Campus and serves on the UMMS Sepsis Steering Group. His research background is in health services, and his interests involve quality measurement in early sepsis care and implementation of molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases.

diagnostic stewardship, sepsis and sepsis bundles, Clostridoides difficile infection, infection prevention, quality improvement

• Baghdadi JD, Korenstein D, Pineles L, Scherer LD, Lydecker AD, Magder L, Stevens DN, Morgan DJ. Exploration of Primary Care Clinician Attitudes and Cognitive Characteristics Associated with Prescribing Antibiotics for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria. JAMA Netw. Open. 5(5): e2214268. 2022 May.
• Baghdadi JD, Coffey K, Adediran T, Goodman KE, Pineles L, Magder LS, O’Hara LM, Pineles BL, Nadimpalli G, Morgan DJ, Harris AD. Antibiotic use and bacterial infection among inpatients in the first wave of COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study of 64,691 patients. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 7;65(11):e01341-21, 2021 Sep.
• Goodman KE, Magder LS, Baghdadi JD, Pineles L, Levine AR, Perencevich EN, Harris AD. Impact of Sex and Metabolic Comorbidities on COVID-19 Mortality Risk Across Age Groups: 66,646 Inpatients Across 613 US Hospitals. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2020 Dec 18.
• Baghdadi JD, Brook RH, Uslan DZ, Needleman J, Bell DS, Cunningham WE, Wong MD. Association of a Care Bundle for Early Sepsis Management With Mortality Among Patients With Hospital-Onset or Community-Onset Sepsis. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2020 May 1;180(5):707-16.