Texas Children’s is proud to announce that Dr. Judith Campbell was recently named medical director of the Infection Prevention and Control Department. The department is focused on improving the overall quality of health care by preventing and/or controlling disease transmission through the use of sound epidemiologic principles and scientific-based decision making.
In her new role, Campbell will serve as a physician partner to Elaine Whaley, who is the director of the Infection Prevention and Control Department. Campbell also will serve as a physician partner to several infection control practitioners as they ensure compliance with infection control policies and procedures, and make decisions regarding the implementation and institution of surveillance, isolation, and outbreak investigation.
With this added responsibility, Campbell said she will reduce her number of clinical service months from six to four.
“I am honored and humbled to be asked to serve in this capacity at Texas Children’s Hospital,” Campbell said about her new appointment. “I appreciate the years of training and mentoring I have received from my predecessors in this role and look forward to addressing the challenges and opportunities for improvement at Texas Children’s Hospital through collaboration, scholarship and hard work.”
In addition to her new appointment with the Infection Prevention and Control Department, Campbell is one of the attending physicians for the Infectious Disease Service. She also is the program director for the Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship program is an associate medical director of our new eight-bed special isolation unit at Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus. This unit will be designed for children with highly contagious infectious diseases.
After earning her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, Campbell completed an internship, residency, chief residency and infectious disease fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital. She was pleased to be offered an opportunity to serve on the faculty upon completion of her clinical and research training in 1992. Since then, she has been focused on the medical education of residents and fellows, and on providing care for infants, children and adolescents with a variety of infectious diseases. She has a special interest in hospital epidemiology/infection prevention and innovative programs and strategies for medical education.