Naomi O’Grady, MD, FIDSA, is the chief of the internal medicine service and an attending physician in the Critical Care Medicine Department at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. She has previously served as the medical director of the Clinical Center’s procedures, vascular access and conscious sedation services and as the medical director of patient safety and quality for critical care.

She obtained her undergraduate degree from University of Michigan and her medical degree at Ohio State University, where she also completed her internship and residency. She then completed fellowships with NIH in critical care medicine and with Johns Hopkins University in infectious diseases before joining the NIH attending staff in 1999.

Her research focuses on strategies to reduce the incidence of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens in the intensive care unit and catheter-related bloodstream infections. Dr. O’Grady is a past chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine Specialty Board for Critical Care Medicine and has served on the ABIM Council and the Board of Directors. She is a Fellow of IDSA and of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.