Mark. E. Rupp, M.D.

Dr. Mark E. Rupp is a Professor and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He is also the Medical Director of The Nebraska Medical Center Department of Infection Control & Epidemiology.

Dr. Rupp received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He completed internship and residency training in Internal Medicine and a Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.

Dr. Rupp is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine in the subspecialty area of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Rupp is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), and the Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America (SHEA). Dr. Rupp is a member of the International Society on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections. He is a Past-President of SHEA and a past-president of the American Society for Microbiology Division L (Infection Control/Hospital Epidemiology). Dr. Rupp has served as a consultant for the US Food and Drug Administration as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and the US Department of Veteran Affairs.

Dr. Rupp has published over 300 articles, chapters and abstracts. He frequently presents papers at national and international conferences, serves as a guest lecturer, and is an active teacher and researcher. Dr. Rupp’s research interests are in the areas of staphylococcal disease, healthcare-associated infections, and antimicrobial resistance.