Michael Sebert, M.D. Titles and Appointments Professor Schools Medical School Departments Pediatrics You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Michael Sebert, M.D., is a graduate of Duke University and the Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in pediatrics as well as his fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He presently serves as the Medical Director for Infection Prevention and Control at Children's Health Dallas. Dr. Sebert's clinical interests include infection prevention and healthcare-associated infections. He focuses his research on microbial evolution, pathogen transmission and hospital epidemiology. Education Medical School Stanford University School of Medicine (1995) Residency Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (1998), Pediatrics Fellowship Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (2002), Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Interest Bacterial pathogenesis Genomic epidemiology Hospital epidemiology Microbial evolution Pathogen transmission Streptococcus pneumoniae Publications Potential for misclassification of community-acquired respiratory virus infections as healthcare-associated respiratory virus infections at a pediatric healthcare system Most ZM, Perl TM, Sebert M Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2026 Multiyear environmental surveillance in a pediatric teaching hospital: association between airborne mold spores and invasive mold infections Phillips B, Most ZM, Connors B, Jackson P, Sebert ME Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2025 Nov 46 1119-1126 Respiratory virus infections in symptomatic and asymptomatic children upon hospital admission: new insights Most ZM, Perl TM, Sebert M Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology 2024 Oct 4 Healthcare-associated respiratory viral infections after discontinuing universal masking Most ZM, Phillips B, Sebert ME Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2024 Feb 45 247-249 Discontinuation of Contact Precautions for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Pediatric Healthcare System Most ZM, Phillips B, Sebert ME Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society 2024 Feb 13 123-128 Retrospective Observational Assessment of the Impact of Cefepime Prophylaxis in Neutropenic Pediatric Patients with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia Almatrafi MA, Dassner AM, Aquino V, Slone T, Sebert M Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society 2023 Aug 12 471-476 Contrasting definitions and incidence of healthcare-associated respiratory viral infections in a pediatric hospital Most ZM, Jackson P, Sebert M, Perl TM Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2023 Jan 44 55-61 Transfusion-Transmitted Malaria: Two Pediatric Cases from the United States and Their Relevance in an Increasingly Globalized World Stubbs LA, Price M, Noland D, Fuchs J, Filkins L, McElvania E, Luu HS, Sebert M, Waters A, Hsiang MS Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society 2021 Dec 10 1092-1095 Community Airborne Mold Spore Counts and Invasive Fungal Disease Risk Among Pediatric Hematological Malignancy and Stem Cell Transplant Patients Almatrafi MA, Aquino VM, Slone T, Huang R, Sebert M Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2021 Nov 8 Harnessing the electronic health record and computerized provider order entry data for resource management during the COVID-19 pandemic: Development of a decision tree Luu HS, Filkins LM, Park JY, Rakheja D, Tweed J, Menzies C, Wang VJ, Mittal V, Lehmann CU, Sebert ME JMIR Medical Informatics 2021 Oct 9 Results 1-10 of 23 1 2 3 Next Last Books Featured Books Gastroenteritis. In Bergelson JM, Shah SS, Zaoutis TE, eds. Pediatric Infectious Diseases: The Requisites in Pediatrics. Sebert M. (2008). Philadelphia: Mosby Elsevier; 157-168. Honors & Awards DFW Hospital Council Physician of the Year NomineeChildren's Medical Center (2015) Dean's Award for Research, Stanford University School of Medicine (1995) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Academy of Pediatrics (2005) American Society for Microbiology (2000-2014) Infectious Disease Society of America (2003) Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (2014) Society for Pediatric Research (2009)
