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Sharon Beth Weissman, MD, is division chief of infectious diseases at Prisma Health in Columbia, South Carolina, where she also serves as a clinical professor of internal medicine at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. She previously served as program director for the Prisma Health–Midlands Infectious Disease Fellowship Program. Dr. Weissman received her medical degree from Columbia University in New York City and completed her residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. After her residency, she completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at Beth Israel Hospital-Brigham and Women's Hospital, also in Boston. She previously held positions at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where she was director of the HIV/Infectious Disease Clinic at the Louis Stoke Cleveland VAMC, and Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, where she also served as director of HIV services at the Hospital of Saint Raphael.

Helmut Albrecht, MD, received his medical degree from the University of Hamburg, Germany, and completed residencies in Internal Medicine at the University of Hamburg and Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Albrecht completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of Hamburg and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Emory University. Dr. Albrecht has previously served as Chair of the Department of Medicine for Prisma Health Medical Group, Chief of Medicine for Prisma Health Richland, as well as having been the Chief of the USC Infectious Diseases Division. He is the current Heyward Gibbes Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine. Dr. Albrecht has considerable study experience as investigator, principal or coordinating investigator of multiple national and international trials. He has served as a reviewer for AIDS, Clinical Investigator, CID, JID, Annuals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, EID, and other journals. He has published more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has authored >50 book chapters.

Majdi Al-Hasan, MD, is an infectious disease specialist with Prisma Health in Columbia, South Carolina. He received his medical degree from the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan, and completed his internal medicine residency training at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He then completed an infectious diseases fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and his Certificate of Clinical Research Training Program at Mayo Graduate School. Dr. Al-Hasan joined the the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and Prisma Health in 2013. He is currently a clinical professor, chief of the Infectious Diseases Division and medical director of research in the Department of Internal Medicine. He also is the medical director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence at Prisma Health in Columbia, and is a founding and advisory board member of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Collaborative of South Carolina. Al-Hasan has established himself as a prominent figure in the fields of bloodstream infection, antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial stewardship. He has published over 75 peer-reviewed articles and serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for several journals of infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, and antimicrobial agents. In his spare time, he enjoys travelling, soccer and spending time with his family.