Professional Bio
Nancy M. Bennett, M.D., M.S. is Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences, the Director of the Center for Community Health and Co-director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Bennett is the chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has directed numerous studies and community interventions funded by the CDC, NYSDOH and national and regional foundations related to the prevention of communicable and chronic disease. Dr. Bennett is the principal investigator for the Rochester Emerging Infections Program (CDC) and the Healthy Living Research Center (NIH).
Dr. Bennett is a graduate of New York University School of Medicine and did her residency and Chief Residency at Bellevue Hospital in NYC. During her fellowship in general medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, she earned a Masters Degree in Epidemiology. She was an Assistant Professor of Medicine, a Mellon Fellow in Epidemiology, and taught in the School of Public Health at Columbia University before moving to Rochester. She served for 17 years as the Deputy Director of the Monroe County Department of Public Health, is an author of more than 100 peer reviewed articles, and serves on a variety of local and national advisory boards.
2016 Aug 2
Havers FP, Sokolow L, Shay DK, Farley MM, Monroe M, Meek J, Kirley PD, Bennett NM, Morin C, Aragon D, Thomas A, Schaffner W, Zansky SM, Baumbach J, Ferdinands J, Fry AM. "Case-Control Study of Vaccine Effectiveness in Preventing Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Hospitalizations in Older Adults, United States, 2010-2011." Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2016 Aug 2; Epub 2016 Aug 02. |
2016
Bramley AM; Chaves SS; Dawood FS; Doshi S; Reingold A; Miller L; Yousey-Hindes K; Farley MM; Ryan P; Lynfield R; Baumbach J; Zansky S; Bennett, NM. "Utility of Keywords from Chest Radiograph Reports for Pneumonia Surveillance Among Hospitalized Patients with Influenza: The CDC Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network, 2008–2009". Public Health Reports. 2016; 131: 483-490. |
2015 Dec
Chaves SS; Pérez A; Miller L; Bennett NM; Bandyopadhyay A; Farley MM; Fowler B; Hancock EB; Kirley PD; Lynfield R; Ryan P; Morin C; Schaffner W; Sharangpani R; Lindegren ML; Tengelsen L; Thomas A; Hill MB; Bradley KK; Oni O; Meek J; Zansky S; Widdowson MA; Finelli L. "Impact of Prompt Influenza Antiviral Treatment on Extended Care Needs After Influenza Hospitalization Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults." Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2015; 61(12): 1807-14. |
2015 Nov 27
Pilishvili T, Bennett NM. "Pneumococcal disease prevention among adults: Strategies for the use of pneumococcal vaccines." Vaccine. 2015 Nov 27; 33 Suppl 4:D60-5. Epub 2015 Jul 09. |
2015 Oct
Braun ES, Crawford FW, Desai MM, Meek J, Kirley PD, Miller L, Anderson EJ, Oni O, Ryan P, Lynfield R, Bargsten M, Bennett NM, Lung KL, Thomas A, Mermel E, Lindegren ML, Schaffner W, Price A, Chaves SS. "Obesity not associated with severity among hospitalized adults with seasonal influenza virus infection." Infection. 2015 Oct; 43(5):569-75. Epub 2015 Jul 07. |
