Hilary M. Babcock, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-8225
- Fax: 314-454-5392
- Email: hbabcock@nospam.wustl.edu
Dr. Babcock is BJC Healthcare vice president and chief quality officer with the BJC Center for Clinical Excellence. She is responsible for BJC quality programs, including oversight of BJC-wide measurement systems and quality improvement initiatives. She also has physician executive responsibility for BJC patient safety and infection prevention efforts and occupational health. Dr. Babcock is also a member of the CDC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee.
Dr. Babcock is a past president of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and co-chair of the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). She is the former co-chair of AWAM (Advancing Women in Academic Medicine) and on the steering committee of AWAM and FWIM (Forum for Women in Medicine).
Dr. Babcock specializes in prevention of infection transmission in healthcare settings, both operationally and through her research, with a particular focus on respiratory viral infections. Her research has focused on healthcare worker and patient risks for infections, including studies of aerosol generation and risks for pathogen transmission in collaboration with engineering partners. She attends on the Bone and Joint/Orthopedic Infection inpatient consult service.
Dr. Babcock mentors students, residents, fellows and junior faculty who are interested in infection prevention, occupational health and clinical research in those areas, as well as those interested in orthopedic infections.
Infectious Diseases Clinic
620 South Taylor Ave., Suite 100
St. Louis, MO 63110
- Vice President and Chief Quality Officer, BJC HealthCare
- Medical Director, Occupational Health, Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s Hospitals
- BA: Brown University, Rhode Island (1989)
- Medical Degree: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas TX (1994)
- Residency: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (1997)
- Chief Resident, Internal Medicine: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (1999)
- Fellowship Infectious Diseases: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (2002)
- MPH: St. Louis University School of Public Health, St. Louis MO (2006)
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine, Subspecialty of Infectious Diseases
- Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America
- Fellow, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
- 2019 President, SHEA
- O’Neil CA, Li J, Leavey A, Wang Y, Hink M, Wallace M, Biswas P, Burnham CD, Babcock HM. Characterization of Aerosols Generated During Patient Care Activities. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2017 Oct 15;65(8):1335-1341
- O’Neil CA, Kim L, Prill MM, Talbot HK, Whitaker B, Sakthivel SK, Zhang y, Zhang J, Tong S, Stone N, Garg S, Gerber SI, Babcock HM. Respiratory viral surveillance of healthcare personnel and patients at an adult long-term care facility. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
- Pilishvili T, Fleming-Dutra KE, Farrar JL, et al. Vaccine Effectiveness Among Healthcare Personnel Study Team. Interim Estimates of Vaccine Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines Among Health Care Personnel – 33 U.S. Sites, January-March 2021. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2021 May 21;70(20):753-758. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7020e2. PMID: 34014909; PMCID: PMC8136422.