Office:	A530 Crabtree Hall, GSPH
	130 DeSoto Street
	Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Phone:	412-624-1599
Fax:	412-624-7397
E-mail:	lharriso@edc.pitt.edu

Education
	BA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1978
	MD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 1982

Training
	Internship, University of Virginia Hospital, VA, 1985
	Residency, University of Virginia Hospital, VA, 1985
	Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Meningitis and Special Pathogens Branch, 1987
	Infectious Diseases Fellowship, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 1989

Dr. Harrison is a Professor in the Infectious Disease Division and Director of the Center for Genomic Epidemiology (https://dom.pitt.edu/id/centers-institutes/genomic-epidemiology/). His research has focused on the epidemiology and genomic epidemiology of important bacterial pathogens, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, group B Streptococcus, Neisseria meningitidis, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and Clostridium difficile. A major focus of his research is methods for enhanced detection of hospital-acquired transmission of bacterial pathogens using whole genomic sequencing surveillance and data mining of the electronic health record. Dr. Harrison is also the Program Director of three NIH training grants: 1) A T32 program on antimicrobial resistance 2) a D43 international training grant on HIV infection in Mozambique, and 3) a D43 international training grant on public health genomics in South Africa.

Dr. Harrison attends on the inpatient general infectious diseases consultation service at UPMC-Presbyterian Hospital. The service is commonly consulted for advice on diagnosis and treatment of infections including skin and soft-tissue infection; bacteremia and sepsis; central nervous system infections, such as bacterial meningitis, viral encephalitis, and brain abscess; osteomyelitis; necrotizing fasciitis; endocarditis and other cardiovascular infections; device-related and prosthetic infections; C. difficile infection; multidrug-resistant infections, and healthcare-associated infections.

Dr. Harrison teaches a course entitled "Methods in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology" (EPIDEM/IDM 2161) in the Graduate School of Public Health. Topics that are covered include outbreak investigation, genomic/molecular epidemiology, new vaccines and vaccine prevention, study designs in infectious diseases epidemiology, drug-resistant bacteria, public health surveillance, and emerging infectious diseases. He also lectures on these and other topics in variety of other fora at the University of Pittsburgh, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Harrison has mentored numerous infectious diseases fellows, as well as MPH, DrPH, and PhD students.

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