Stan Deresinski, MD, FIDSA, is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine. After training in internal medicine, he completed training in infectious diseases at Stanford University.  He has practiced clinical infectious diseases for more than four decades. His clinical interests and activities have been broad and have included AIDS, fungal infections, antimicrobial resistance, infections in critical care medicine and medical education. In 2011, he was awarded IDSA’s Watanakunakorn Clinician Award in recognition of outstanding achievement in the clinical practice of infectious diseases. He is a past chair of the IDSA Standards and Practices Guidelines Committee as well as a past member of the IDSA Board of Directors.

In 2012, Dr. Deresinski initiated the antimicrobial stewardship program at Stanford which, in 2019, became the first World Health Organization Collaborating Center dealing with this subject.  He and his colleagues, especially Marisa Holubar, MD, MS, have developed multiple widely accessed online educational programs focusing on antimicrobial stewardship. These include a number of programs and guides developed for WHO, particularly for use in lesser-developed countries.