Monica Marie Farley MD

Dr. Farley is a Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at Emory University School of Medicine, the Associate Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and a Staff Physician at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. She is a Past-President of the American Federation for Medical Research, a Councilor for the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, and a past member of the FDA Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Related Biological Products. She served as the Acting Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University from 1999-2000.

Dr. Farley has a nationally recognized laboratory research program in molecular mechanisms of H. influenza pathogenesis. She has also developed a strong epidemiologic and clinical research program focused on invasive bacterial pathogens. Much of this work is part of the Active Bacterial Core Surveillance (ABCs) Program, a CDC-funded surveillance network, first established in Atlanta in 1988. This surveillance system has been highly productive, providing the population-based assessment of the epidemiology and risk factors for a number of important bacterial infections, including pneumococcal disease and community-associated MRSA. Dr. Farley serves as a Principal Investigator for the CDC-funded Georgia Emerging Infections Program, overseeing ongoing population-based surveillance and related studies in the 5.1 million population of metropolitan Atlanta.

Molecular mechanisms of Haemophilus influenza pathogenesis. Population-based surveillance and epidemiology of invasive bacterial pathogens including (H. influenzae, Neisseria meningitides, groups A and B Streptococcus, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), bacterial food bore diseases and influenza. Related activities include vaccine effectiveness studies, bacterial mucosal carriage studies and case-control studies of risk factors for disease.