Dr. Warren, who completed his ID fellowship at WashU in 2001, was appointed the division chief of Infectious Diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in January 2025. Dr. Warren also holds a Master of Public Health degree, was previously a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He also served as the director of the Clinical Research Training Center at Washington University and as director of the university’s Master of Science in Clinical Investigation Program. In St. Louis, he also previously served as the Hospital Epidemiologist for Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
Dr. Warren’s clinical expertise is in infection prevention and he has a track record of CDC and NIH funding. He specializes in clinical research in hospital epidemiology and infection prevention, with a special focus on the epidemiology and prevention of device-related infections and surgical site infections, plus improving diagnostic stewardship of microbiological testing to accurately diagnose infectious diseases.
Dr. Warren has a long history of mentorship both with infectious diseases fellows and other trainees. The fellows he has mentored have gone on to careers in academia (faculty positions at Washington University, University of Illinois, SUNY-Stoneybrook, Catholic University of Chile, and Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center), public health (including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and city health departments) and private practice. He has also mentored Master of Public Health students. His mentees have published numerous first-author, peer-reviewed original manuscripts.
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dr. Warren attended the University of Pittsburgh for medical school before coming to Washington University in St. Louis for internal medicine residency and infectious diseases fellowship.
We are thankful for Dr. Warren’s role and leadership in ID at WashU and wish him all the best in his role as ID division chief at UNMC!