Monica M.. Farley, MD
Emory University School of Medicine
Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
101 Woodruff Circle, WMB 2101
Atlanta, GA 30322
Assistant: Lane Pucko
Phone: (404) 728-7688
mpucko@emory.edu
Member Since: 1993
Member Status: Fellow
Title
Professor of Medicine, Associate Director Division of Infectious Diseases
Specialty/Subspecialty
Infectious
Clinical Interest(s)
Vaccine advisory experience
Research Interest(s)
- Epidemiology of invasive bacterial infections
- Vaccine preventable bacterial infections
- Bacterial pathogenesis
Current / Former SSCI Roles
About Monica M.. Farley, MD
Monica Farley is a Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), the Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine, and a Staff Physician at the Atlanta VA Medical Center.
Dr. Farley serves as the Emory/VA Principal Investigator for the Georgia Emerging Infections Program (EIP), a CDC-funded surveillance network of epidemiologic and clinical research groups focused on invasive bacterial pathogens, influenza and foodborne diseases. The surveillance program, in place in Atlanta since 1988 and currently covering a population of 5.2 million in Metropolitan Atlanta, has been highly productive, providing population-based assessment of the epidemiology and risk factors for a number of important bacterial infections, including pneumococcal disease and community-associated MRSA.
She is a Past-President of the American Federation for Medical Research and was a member of the FDA Advisory committee on Vaccines and Related Biological Products. Dr. Farley is the President-Elect for the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation and previously served as Secretary-Treasurer of the SSCI.