Eli Perencevich, MD, MS
Professor of Internal Medicine-General Internal Medicine
Current Positions
- Professor of Internal Medicine-General Internal Medicine
- Professor of Epidemiology
- Associate Chair, Clinical and Health Services Research, Internal Medicine
- Director, Center for Access & Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE), Iowa City VA Medical Center
- Director, HRS&D CADRE Center of Innovation (COIN), Iowa City VA Medical Center
Education
- MD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
- Resident, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York City, New York
- Assistant Chief Resident, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, New York
- Chief Resident, NYU Downtown Hospital, New York City, New York
- Fellow, Infectious Disease, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
- MS, Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
Graduate Program Affiliations
Selected Publications
- Friberg Walhof J, Racila AM, Hockett Sherlock S, Cunningham Goedken C, Suh D, Guerrero B, Zabarsky T, Dukes K, Perencevich EN. Variation in veterans affairs hospitals' UV-C surface disinfection systems guidance documents: a qualitative content analysis. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2025 Jun 20;5(1):e131. PMCID: PMC12188271
- André Luís Franco Cotia, Anderson Paulo Scorsato, Elivane da Silva Victor, Marcelo Prado, Guilherme Gagliardi, José Edgar Vieira de Barros, José R Generoso Jr, Fernando Gatti de Menezes, Mariana Kim Hsieh, Gabriel O V Lopes, Michael B Edmond, Eli N Perencevich, Michihiko Goto, Sérgio B Wey, Alexandre R Marra (et al. (2025). Integration of an electronic hand hygiene auditing system with electronic health records using machine learning to predict hospital-acquired infection in a health care setting. Am J Infect Control. 2025 Jan;53(1):58-64. DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2024.09.012
- Perencevich, E. (2025). A century of research improving veteran health. The Gazette.
- Smith MW, Carrel M, Shi Q, Hasegawa S, Clore G, Tang Z, Perencevich E, Goto M. Spatiotemporal distribution of community-acquired phenotypic extended-spectrum beta-lactamase Escherichia coli in United States counties, 2010-2019. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2024 Apr;45(4):540-542. doi: 10.1017/ice.2023.266. Epub 2023 Dec 11. PMID: 38073591; PMCID: PMC11007319.
- Leekha S, Robinson GL, Jacob JT, Fridkin S, Shane A, Sick-Samuels A, Milstone AM, Nair R, Perencevich E, Puig-Asensio M, Kobayashi T, Mayer J, Lewis J, Bleasdale S, Wenzler E, Mena Lora AJ, Baghdadi J, Schrank GM, Wilber E, Aldredge AA, Sharp J, Dyer KE, Kendrick L, Ambalam V, Borgetti S, Carmack A, Gushiken A, Patel A, Reddy S, Brown CH, Dantes RB, Harris AD; CDC Prevention Epicenters Program. Evaluation of hospital-onset bacteraemia and fungaemia in the USA as a potential healthcare quality measure: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Qual Saf. 2024 Jul 22;33(8):487-498. PMCID: PMC11287649.
- Kakiuchi, S., Livorsi, D. J., Perencevich, E. N., Diekema, D. J., Ince, D., Prasidthrathsint, K., Kinn, P., Percival, K., Heintz, B. H. & Goto, M. (2021). Days of Antibiotic Spectrum Coverage (DASC): A Novel Metric for Inpatient Antibiotic Consumption. Clinical Infectious Diseases. PMID: 34910130.
- Suzuki, H., Marra, A. R., Hasegawa, S., Livorsi, D. J., Goto, M., Perencevich, E. N., Ohl, M. E., DeBerg, J. & Schweizer, M. L. (2021). Outpatient antibiotic prescribing for common infections via telemedicine versus face-to-face visits: Systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology 1 (1). DOI: 10.1017/ash.2021.179.
- Ertem, Z., Schechter-Perkins, E. M., Oster, E., van den Berg, P., Epshtein, I., Chaiyakunapruk, N., Wilson, F. A., Perencevich, E., Pettey WBP, Branch-Elliman, W. & Nelson, R. E. (2021). The impact of school opening model on SARS-CoV-2 community incidence and mortality. Nature Medicine. PMID: 34707317.
- Nair, R., Gao, Y., Vaughan-Sarrazin, M. S., Perencevich, E., Girotra, S. & Pandey, A. (2021). Risk-Standardized Home Time as a Novel Hospital Performance Metric for Pneumonia Hospitalization Among Medicare Beneficiaries: a Retrospective Cohort Study. Journal of General Internal Medicine. PMCID: PMC8481448
- Marimuthu, K., Mo, Y., Ling, M. L., Hernandez-Koutoucheva, A., Fenlon, S. N., Bertrand, D., Lye, D. C., Ang, B. S., Perencevich, E., Ng, O. T., Cooper, B. S., Nagarajan, N., Chen, S. L. & Barkham, T. (2021). Household transmission of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae: a prospective cohort study. The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 76 (5) 1299-1302. PMID: 33417711.