Dale N. Gerding

Dr Dale Gerding is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL (retired) and Research Physician at the Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Affairs Hospital, Hines, IL where he maintains his active research laboratory. He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases and a Master of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Society for Microbiology.

Dr. Gerding’s long and distinguished career includes past president of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, past chair of the antibiotic resistance committee of SHEA and past chair of the National and Global Public Health Committee and the Antibiotic Resistance Subcommittee of IDSA. He was the recipient of the 2013 William S. Middleton Award. The Middleton Award is the highest honour awarded annually by the Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Service to senior VA biomedical research scientists. In addition, he has been a Merit Review and Cooperative Studies funded research investigator in the US Department of Veterans Affairs for over 35 years.

In addition to authoring of over 450 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and reviews, he is a member of the editorial boards of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Gut Microbes, and Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

Dr Gerding discovered and developed the NTCD-M3 preventive treatment for C. difficile through its Phase 2 programme and in November 2020 he partnered NTCD-M3 with Destiny Pharma to complete the Phase 3 clinical study and commercialise the asset.