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Debra A. Goff

Debra A. Goff PharmD, FCCP

Infectious Disease
Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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Debra Goff is an Infectious Disease Specialist and founding member of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. She is a member of the OSU One Health ASP and also leads the research program for the Department of Pharmacy. She received her bachelor of pharmacy degree, Doctor of Pharmacy degree, and residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dr. Goff is a 2016 TEDx speaker on antibiotics “just in case” there’s infection. She is the international advisor to the Federation of Infectious Diseases Society of South Africa (FIDSSA) educating and mentoring South African health care providers about antimicrobial stewardship. She is the 2014-2016 recipient of the OSU Outreach and Engagement grant that provides training and mentoring to South African pharmacists. She received the 2016 OSU Emerging International Outreach and Engagement Award and the 2017 ACCP Global Pharmacy Award for her work in South Africa. She is a faculty mentor to young African leaders as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship Program.
Her interests include antimicrobial resistance, the application of rapid diagnostic tests with stewardship interventions, use of Twitter to increase global engagement with surgeons, oncologists, veterinarians, and patient advocate organizations in antibiotic stewardship. In her Lancet ID article “A global call from five countries to collaborate in antibiotic stewardship: united we succeed, divided we might fail” she describes how countries can work together in antibiotic stewardship. She lectures nationally and internationally as an antimicrobial stewardship advocate.
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