2018

Epidemiology & Infection Prevention, conferred by Chief Nursing Officer, UC Irvine Health

Team Award for Outstanding Achievement

2017

“When a Home is Not a Home: MultiDrug-Resistant Organism (MDRO) Colonization and Environmental Contamination in 28 Nursing Homes (NHs),” Older Adults Interest Group, Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)

Abstract Award

2017

Plenary Presentation. SHEA Featured Oral Abstract, “The CDC SHIELD Orange County Project – Baseline Multi Drug-Resistant Organism (MDRO) Prevalence in a Southern California Region,” IDWeek (6th Annual Joint Meeting of IDSA, SHEA, HIVMA, and PIDS), October 6, 2017 (San Diego, CA).

IDWeek Program Committee Choice Award

2016

Nosocomial C. difficile Infection Reduction Project, UC Irvine Health

SOAR Award

2016

Infectious Diseases Society of America (early recognition award for outstanding achievement in an area of infectious diseases by an individual 45 years or younger)

Oswald Avery Award

Infectious Diseases Society of America : Fellow

Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America : Member

American College of Physicians : Fellow

The SHIELD Orange County Project: Multidrug-resistant Organism Prevalence in 21 Nursing Homes and Long-term Acute Care Facilities in Southern California

Chlorhexidine versus routine bathing to prevent multidrug-resistant organisms and all-cause bloodstream infections in general medical and surgical units (ABATE Infection trial)

Decolonization to Reduce Postdischarge Infection Risk among MRSA Carriers

Effectiveness of a multistate quality improvement campaign in reducing risk of surgical site infections following hip and knee arthroplasty

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Dr. Huang’s research focuses on the clinical epidemiology of highly antibiotic-resistant organisms including estimating the risk for infection and assessing practical means for prevention. Dr. Huang’s work involves studying the risks of healthcare-associated transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE), including both short and long-term sequelae due to these pathogens within and beyond the hospital stay. Her scope of research also includes an evaluation of inter-facility spread and containment of these pathogens, including the intersection of preventative measures on hospital networks, affiliated nursing homes, and surrounding communities. She has evaluated several strategies to mitigate transmission and disease, including active surveillance and institution of contact precautions, enhanced environmental cleaning, and, most recently, leading several large individual and cluster randomized trials of decolonization to reduce multidrug-resistant organisms and healthcare-associated infections.

Dr. Huang has also built a population laboratory in a large metropolitan county in Southern California (Orange County, CA). She has performed detailed data collection across all hospitals and nursing homes in this county, including extensive details on inter-facility patient sharing, infection control practices, and ICUs, non-ICUs, and nursing homes estimates of pathogen burden in this county. These detailed population data are the foundation for a dynamic transmission model of Orange County facilities and communities built through the NIH Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) collaborative. This model will allow simulation of intervention strategies as well as prediction of future trends in transmission and disease burden for MRSA and other pathogens.
Beyond MRSA, Dr. Huang is broadly interested in the measurement and prevention of healthcare associated infections. She has evaluated more efficient ways to look at relative hospital rankings using administrative data, and has balanced this with rigorous in depth assessments related to accuracy and completeness of reporting. She has specific interests in the use of automated hospital and claims data to assess pathogen clusters and surgical site infections.

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 The American Society for Clinical Investigation Profile

Innovator of the Year Awards – UCI Health/UC Irvine School of Medicine

Antiseptic Soap and Nasal Decolonization Prevents Infection and Hospitalization in Nursing Home Residents: Findings From the PROTECT Trial

Leaders in health care

Meet Orange County’s 125 most influential people for 2023

Fungal Infection: Why Cases of Candida Auris Are Increasing

Should You Wait for Omicron-Targeting COVID-19 Booster Shots?

Omicron's Latest Subvariant, BA.2.12.1, May Present 3 Misleading Early Symptoms

Mask On or Off? Life Is Getting Back to Normal, and We’re Rusty.

Boosters in OC Surpass 1 Million

Professor and Director of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention, Department of Medicine, Division of Infection Diseases

Prof. Susan Huang (University of California Irvine) talks about how to control multi-resistant bacteria  and shares her experience during the International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC) 2015 in Geneva.

Biography on: http://www.icpic.com/images/2015/Bio/89.html

Prof. Susan Huang at ICPIC – How to control multi-resistant

As a public service, and in keeping with the OC Forum’s role as the purveyor of timely, issues-driven conversations that are important to our community, the OC Forum will present a free, online community discussion on Thursday, March 19 from noon to 1:30 p.m. focused on the Coronavirus pandemic and what Orange County needs to know.

To adhere to social distancing protocols, the livestream will be broken up into three segments with the following speakers:

Segment #1:
-Dr. Bernadette Boden-Albala, Dean of Public Health, UCI
-Dr. Steve Goldstein, Vice Chancellor of Health Affairs, UCI
-Dr. Susan Huang, Medical Director of Epidemiology & Infection Prevention, UCI Health

Segment #2: 
-Dr. Al Mijares, Orange County Superintendent of Schools, OC Department of Education
-Hon. Donald P. Wagner, Third District, OC Board of Supervisors

Segment #3:
-Lucy Dunn, CEO, Orange County Business Council (OCBC)
-Susan Parks, CEO, Orange County United Way
-Harald Herrmann, CEO, Second Harvest Food Bank of OC

HOST:
-Rick Reiff, Editor at Large, Orange County Business Journal

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