Overview

Susan M. Ray, MD is Professor of Medicine in the division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Rays academic and clinical pursuits are centered on the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of infectious diseases affecting the urban, indigent, minority population served by Grady Health System; she is the Hospital Epidemiologist for Grady Health System. Dr. Ray has been a clinician at the Fulton county TB clinic since 1999 and in 2010 became the medical consultant to the GA Dept of Public Health TB program.
Dr. Ray is the founder and physician director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Needlestick Prevention Center. Dr. Ray has been an investigator with the GA Emerging Infections Program since 1998 and is the lead investigator for GA EIP Healthcare Associated Infections and Community Interface (HAIC). Dr. Ray has served as a member of the Emory Institutional Review Board since 2003; in 2006 she was appointed Vice-Chair to the IRB.

Her specific areas of interest include:
- the management of co-infection with HIV and TB
- defining the immune response to Mtb infection
- use of genotyping data to inform contact investigations to prevention TB disease
- epidemiology and prevention of MRSA infections
- prevention of healthcare associated infections
- surveillance methodology for healthcare associated infections

Academic Appointment

• Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine
• Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Research