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The IDSA Fellowship is recognize as one of the field’s highest professional honors, recognizing sustained contributions to infectious-disease research, education, public health or clinical care.

Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America — 2025

Dr. Bailey was selected as a 2022 R25 Fellow by the University of South Carolina’s Big Data Health Science Center. Her project examined outpatient antimicrobial use during the COVID-19 pandemic.

R25 Junior Faculty Fellow, Big Data Health Science Center, University of South Carolina - 2022

Dr. Bailey was the inaugural recipient of the Dr. Saba Masho Endowed Scholarship in Epidemiology, which supports graduate students in epidemiology and public health.

Dr. Saba Masho Endowed Scholarship in Epidemiology, Virginia Commonwealth University — 2020

Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America — FIDSA

Board Certified in Infectious Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine

Board Certified in Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine

Implementation of a Pilot Program of Interprofessional Education in Infection Prevention

Stewardship Opportunities in Peripartum Infections: A Review of Quality Improvement Initiatives and Future Directions

Appropriateness of Ambulatory Antibiotic Prescribing in South Carolina, 2012–2017

Cefoxitin for Intra-amniotic Infections and Endometritis: A Retrospective Comparison to Traditional Antimicrobial Therapy Regimens Within a Healthcare System

Contact Precautions as a Barrier to Hand Hygiene: The Plan–Do–Study–Act Framework to Improve Compliance With Gloved Hand Hygiene

Providing Value to Patients and Providers Via a Pediatric Statewide Antibiogram in South Carolina

Change in Antimicrobial Use During COVID-19 Pandemic in South Carolina Hospitals: A Multicenter Observational Cohort Study

Improving how antibiotics are selected, prescribed and monitored across healthcare settings.

Antimicrobial Stewardship and Antibiotic Use

Strengthening the practices, workflows and systems that reduce preventable infections in healthcare.

Infection Prevention and Healthcare Epidemiology

Improving antimicrobial treatment for infections associated with pregnancy and childbirth.

Peripartum Infections and Obstetric Antibiotic Stewardship

Pamela Bailey, DO, MPH, FIDSA, is the Associate Infection Prevention Officer at ChristianaCare and a board-certified infectious diseases and internal medicine physician. Her work focuses on preventing healthcare-associated infections, improving antimicrobial use and strengthening infection-prevention practices across complex healthcare environments.

Dr. Bailey’s expertise includes antimicrobial stewardship, healthcare epidemiology, hand hygiene, personal protective equipment and clinical quality improvement. She has contributed to research examining antibiotic use during the COVID-19 pandemic, outpatient antimicrobial prescribing practices, and the treatment of infections associated with pregnancy and childbirth. She has previously received CDC grant funding for infection prevention education in an interprofessional format.

Her work brings together clinical infectious diseases, public health and health-system operations to address how infections are prevented, monitored and treated. She is particularly interested in translating evidence into practical policies and workflows that support patient safety, improve prescribing decisions and reduce the spread of infection.

Before joining ChristianaCare in her current leadership role, Dr. Bailey served as an infectious diseases physician at Prisma Health Midlands and as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. She was the physician lead of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Collaborative of South Carolina and the director of the South Carolina Regional Infection Prevention Training Center. She completed her internal medicine residency at ChristianaCare and fellowships in infectious diseases and hospital epidemiology and infection control at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System. She also earned a Master of Public Health from Virginia Commonwealth University and is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Infection Prevention

Antimicrobial Stewardship

Epidemiology

Infectious Diseases

Healthcare-associated Infections

Antimicrobial Resistance

Antibiotic Prescribing

Peripartum Infections

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‘Not out of the woods’: Delaware doctor predicts more measles cases as the state’s outbreak rises to 5

How Worried Should You Be About the Measles?

South Carolina Confirms First Measles Case of 2025

Is It a UTI? How to Know and What to Watch For

Amnio-Oh-No You Didn’t: Modernizing Antimicrobial Regimens for Intra-amniotic Infections

Evaluating the Predictive Value of Blood Culture Bottle Reporting for Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci-Positive Cultures: Assessing Contamination vs. True Bacteremia

Associate Infection Prevention Officer at ChristianaCare

You're Not Washing Your Hands Correctly with Dr. Pam Bailey and Sara Townsend

Cyclospora, what you need to know. #cyclospora

How Does Measles Spread? #measles #measlesoutbreak

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