Nasia Safdar, MD, Ph.D,is a professor in the Division of Infectious Disease within the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she is s also Associate Dean for Clinical Trials and Research Director of the Wisconsin Medicine Institute for Clinical Trials. Dr. Safdar is also Faculty Director of Investigator-Initiated and Multisite Research, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. Dr. Safdar serves as the Associate Chief of Staff for Research at the William S. Middleton Veterans Hospital and as the Medical Director of Infection Control at UW Health. Her research, which has been funded by VA, AHRQ, PCORI, and NIH, aims to reduce and prevent healthcare-associated infections by identifying, testing, and implementing novel interventions.

Because of her work and research in this area, in 2017, Dr. Safdar received a President’s Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. In 2018, she received the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. In 2019, she received the Oswald Avery Award for Early Achievement which honors ISDA fellows aged 45 or younger for overall outstanding achievements in infectious disease. In 2021, Dr. Safdar became an invited fellow of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.