Rama Thyagarajan, M.D., MPH

Rama Thyagarajan, M.D., is board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases. In addition to her appointment at Dell Medical School, she provides infectious diseases care at Dell Seton Medical Center. Her clinical interest focuses on improving patient outcomes related to infections acquired in the hospital and implementing processes to facilitate responsible antimicrobial use in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities.

Additionally, Thyagarajan serves as chair of the Texas Department of State Health Services Public Health Region 7 Antimicrobial Stewardship Regional Advisory Committee, a collaborative statewide program to facilitate responsible antimicrobial use, helping limit spread of antimicrobial resistant pathogens in Texas. Thyagarajan is also a faculty work group member of American Medical Association Project Firstline, a collaborative effort with the Centers for Diseases Control that serves as a national infection control training program for timely and relevant education all health care personnel.

Prior to Dell Med, Thyagarajan was a physician leader at Beaumont Health, the largest health care system in Michigan. At Beaumont Health, she served as clinical chief of the Infection Prevention and Epidemiology Clinical Care Program and corporate medical director of infection prevention and epidemiology. In Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan, Thyagarajan served as the medical director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program and led epidemiology and infection prevention efforts for 15 years.