Victoria J. Fraser, MD

Interim Chair, Department of Medicine
J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine
Co-Director, Division of Infectious Diseases

Dr. Fraser joined the Infectious Disease Division in 1991. She received her MD from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. She was an Internal Medicine resident and chief resident at the University of Colorado. She did her fellowship in Infectious Disease at Washington Univeristy School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. The major focus of Dr. Fraser's current research is in the prevention and control of nosocomial infections. A second focus of her research is patient safety.

Research Interests

My primary research concerns the study of healthcare epidemiology, which includes the study of nosocomial infections, specifically surgical site infections, blood stream infections and ventilator-associated pneumonia. We study risk factors and outcomes and costs of these infections as well as how to prevent them. We use hospital based information systems and informatics to do electronic surveillance. Recently we have begun to study the epidemiology of medical errors. We have developed new reporting systems for medical errors and we are studying the risk factors and outcomes of medical errors in order to develop strategies to prevent them.

Biographical Sketch

Link to PubMed for selected publications

Office Location:
Washington University School of Medicine
Northwest Tower
Suite 1500A
4990 Children's Place
St. Louis, MO 63110

Telephone: (314) 454-8215
Fax: (314) 454-5392
Email: vfraser@dom.wustl.edu