Peter A. Gross, M.D.

 
Dr. Gross did his undergraduate work at Amherst College and received his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine. His residency training was taken at Yale and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He had an NIH special fellowship at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, as well as serving in the U.S. Public Health Service as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer. He has been on the medical faculties of Yale University and Columbia University.

He currently is Professor of Medicine and Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine at New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ in Newark, New Jersey. He is Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine and former Hospital Epidemiologist at Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, New Jersey. He is boarded in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Gross has served on the Hospital Wide Clinical Indicators Task Force of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations and recently was appointed as chair, Pneumonia Clinical Advisory Panel. He is past Chairman of the Practice Guidelines Committee of the Infectious Disease Society of America and currently serves on the IDSA governing council. He is past President of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiologists of America. He is a member of the Association of Professors of Medicine. He serves on the American College of Physicians’ Task Force on Adult Immunization. His published research includes over 250 articles on hospital epidemiology, implementing quality improvement and influenza vaccine.