Stephen G. Weber

About

Dr. Stephen G. Weber is a Professor of Medicine in the Section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health at the University of Chicago. He is also the Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for the University of Chicago Medicine Health System, where he helps oversee programs related to physician quality and practice, population health, care coordination, informatics, simulation, and innovation. Recently, he assumed co-executive leadership of the health system's digital health programming. Dr. Weber continues to see patients in both inpatient and ambulatory settings. He received his MD from the New York University School of Medicine, completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago—including serving as Chief Medical Resident—and completed a subspecialty fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He also earned a Master's Degree in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. His research initially focused on the prevention and management of infections caused by multi-drug resistant organisms among hospitalized patients. He has also examined public policy and regulation related to infection control, serving for a decade as the Chair of Public Policy and Government Affairs for the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Dr. Weber has been influential in shaping national and regional policies around healthcare-associated infection reporting. He has been recognized for his outstanding…

Research topics

• Medicine
• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Biology
• Data science
• Materials science
• Internal medicine
• Mathematics
• Engineering
• Virology

Selected publications

• High Rates of Rapid Antigen Test Positivity After 5 days of Isolation for COVID-19

  medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2022 · 29 citations

  Abstract Background The emergence of the highly transmissible COVID-19 variant, omicron, has resulted in high numbers of breakthrough infections, including among healthcare workers (HCW). Recent CDC recommendations now allow healthcare workers to return to work after day 5 if symptoms have improved, without a requirement for a negative rapid antigen test (RAT). Methods Fully vaccinated and non-immunocompromised HCW at a large, urban, academic medical center who tested positive for COVID-19 start…

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• Electrochemical Detection of Biomolecules in Liquid Chromatography and Capillary Electrophoresis

  Advances in chromatography · 2021-05-12 · 11 citations

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  The electrochemical detector has enjoyed considerable success in bioanalytical chemistry. All chemical species can be oxidized, giving up electrons, and reduced, taking on electrons. The tendency for molecules and ions to do this, however, varies widely. The potentiostat controls the potential of the electrons in the working electrode. The counter/working electrode circuit is activated, and the excess charge is withdrawn. The excess charge corresponds to the current that went to oxidize the uric…

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• The Patient and Health Care System: Perspectives on High-Quality Care

  2020-01-01 · 5 citations

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• Integrating Physicians Into Lean Quality Improvement Through a Structured Educational Program

  American Journal of Medical Quality · 2021-07-26 · 1 citations

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  In the increasingly complex health care system, physicians require skills and knowledge to participate with multidisciplinary team members in quality improvement (QI) that adds value to health care organizations. The Educational and Clinical Leaders Improving Performance with Structured E3L training (ECLIPSE) program was developed to address this challenge. Clinically relevant components of lean management were leveraged to create an online, flipped-classroom curriculum, and this was paired with…

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• Leading in Healthcare Quality and Safety in the Era of Digital Health and AI: Applying Discipline to Manage Fear and FOMO

  American Journal of Medical Quality · 2025-10-31

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Recent grants

• Fast Online Microdialysis/Liquid Chromatography for Monoamine Neurotransmitters

  NIH · $1.3M · 2014–2019

• Selective Extraction into Nonvolatile Media

  NSF · $390k · 2003–2007

• Selective Extraction Into Fluorous Media

  NSF · $411k · 2006–2010

Frequent coauthors

• Owe Orwar

  68 shared

• Mats Sandberg

  University of Gothenburg

  55 shared

• Jessica Olofsson

  Karolinska Institutet

  39 shared

• Steven J. Woltman

  31 shared

• Vineet M. Arora

  28 shared

• Ann Arbor

  Klinikum Saarbrücken

  27 shared

• Preeti Malani

  27 shared

• Carol A. Kauffman

  University of Arizona

  26 shared

Labs

• Stephen G. Weber LabPI

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Education

• M.D.

  New York University School of Medicine

• M.D., Internal Medicine

  University of Chicago

• Other, Epidemiology

  Harvard School of Public Health

Awards & honors

• University of Chicago Medicine Department of Medicine's Outs…
• Listed among Chicago’s Top Doctor’s in Chicago Magazine
• Recognized multiple times by Becker’s Healthcare as one of t…

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