Michael Klompas is an Infectious Disease physician and the Hospital Epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston as well as Professor of Population Medicine in Harvard Medical School. He has published widely on surveillance, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia, ventilator-associated events, Covid-19, and sepsis. He has served on multiple guideline panels including the ATS-IDSA panel on Management of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America’s panel on Strategies to Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia, and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guideline panel.