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Jay Basil Varkey

Jay Basil Varkey

Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine and General Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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Dr. Jay Basil Varkey, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases.

He received his BA from Marquette University and an AOA graduate of the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Duke University Medical Center, where he was a member of the Antimicrobial Evaluation Team and the Infection Control and Epidemiology Committee.

He was recruited to Emory University in 2009 to become the Director of the Antimicrobial Management Program and Associate Hospital Epidemiologist at Emory University Hospital (EUH). He also serves as the Co-Director of the Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Treatment Clinic at Emory and as the Hospital Epidemiologist at the Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital of Emory University.

He provides clinical service on the general Infectious Diseases Consult service and the Transplant Infectious Diseases Consult service at EUH. Dr. Varkey is expected to take over as the Hospital Epidemiologist and Chair of the P&T Committee at EUH later this year.
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