Daniel J. Morgan, MD, M.S.

BS Psychology, Reed College, Portland, Oregon                             

MD with Distinction in Research, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

MS Clinical Research, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

Dan is a physician, epidemiologist and tenured Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine. He directs the Center for Innovation in Diagnosis. He was a founding member and Director of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Research Network, Chair for IDWeek 2022, and will be President of SHEA in 2028. At the VA Maryland Healthcare System he directs Infection Control and Epidemiology.

His research explores clinical AI, diagnostic stewardship, medical overuse, and infection prevention. On a NIH New Innovator award for "exceptional scientists pursuing highly innovative approaches to major challenges" he explored clinician risk understanding. This has led to creation of testing wisely. 

He has extensive federal funding, over 250 publications and his work often appears in the media including the New York Times and Washington Post. 

1. Harris AD, Pineles L, Belton B, Johnson JK, Shardell M, Loeb M, Newhouse R, Dembry L, Braun B, Perencevich EN, Hall KK, Morgan DJ and the Benefits of Universal Glove and Gown (BUGG) Investigators. Universal glove and gown use and acquisition of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the ICU: a randomized trial. JAMA 2013
2. Morgan DJ, Brownlee S, Leppin AL, Kressin N, Dhruva SS, Levin L, Landon BE, Zezza MA, Schmidt H, Saini V, Elshaug AG. Setting a research agenda for medical overuse. BMJ. 2015
3. Morgan DJ, Malani P, Diekema DJ. Diagnostic Stewardship-Leveraging the Laboratory to Improve Antimicrobial Use. JAMA. 2017
4. Morgan DJ, Pineles L, Owczarzak J, Magder L, Scherer L, Brown JP, Pfeiffer C, Terndrup C, Leykum L, Feldstein D, Foy A, Stevens D, Koch C, Masnick M, Weisenberg S, Korenstein D. Accuracy of clinician estimates of probability of diagnosis before and after testing. JAMA Intern Med. 2021
5. Goodman KE, Rodman AM, Morgan DJ. Preparing Physicians for the Clinical Algorithm Era. N Engl J Med. 2023