2026 Watanakunakorn lecturer shares essentials for practicing physicians

The 2026 Chatrchai Watanakunakorn, M.D., Lectureship in Medicine is noon Wednesday, March 11, in Watanakunakorn Auditorium.

Erica S. Shenoy, M.D., Ph.D., FIDSA, FSHEA, chief of infection control for Mass General Brigham, will present "Infection prevention in 2026: Essentials for the practicing physician."

Dr. Shenoy is responsible for the development and implementation of infection control strategies, policies and measurement at Mass General Brigham. She is also an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an infectious diseases physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Shenoy is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). She is an elected member of the SHEA Board of Trustees, immediate past chair of SHEA's Public Policy and Government Affairs Committee, and co-chair of SHEA's Low Level Disinfection Guidelines committee.

Registration is not required to attend. Lunch will be provided.

About the lectureship

On March 5, 2004, the family of the late Chatrchai Watanakunakorn, M.D., of Youngstown, Ohio, presented the then Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine with the largest charitable gift in the College's 30-year history. The gift is used to advance medical education in Northeast Ohio, create an endowed chair in microbiology and immunology in Dr. Watanakunakorn's name and provide this lectureship series for healthcare professionals throughout the region.

From 1971 to 2001, Dr. Watanakunakorn served as a professor of internal medicine at the University.

At the time of his dealth in July 2001, Dr. Watanakunakorn was a hospital epidemiologist and chief of infectious diseases at St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown.