Larner College of Medicine

Wallace Alston

Professor, Infectious Disease

wallace.alston@uvmhealth.org
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wallace.alston@uvmhealth.org
Alma mater(s)
  • M.D., New York Medical College
  • M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • B.S., Tulane University
  • Residency, Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center
  • Fellowship, Infectious Disease, Montefiore Medical Center
Affiliated Department(s)

Department of Medicine

Division of Infectious Disease

Areas of expertise

tuberculosis healthcare epidemiology.

BIO

Kemper Alston practices adult infectious diseases at the University of Vermont Medical Center and is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. Dr. Alston is the former Hospital Epidemiologist and a former Chief of the Infectious Diseases Division. He remains as a tuberculosis consultant for the State of Vermont and has a rural HIV clinic in southern Vermont.

Publications

PubMed Publications

Bio

Kemper Alston practices adult infectious diseases at the University of Vermont Medical Center and is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. Dr. Alston is the former Hospital Epidemiologist and a former Chief of the Infectious Diseases Division. He remains as a tuberculosis consultant for the State of Vermont and has a rural HIV clinic in southern Vermont.

Publications

PubMed Publications

Select Publications

  1. Alston WK, Elliott DA, Epstein ME, Hatcher VB, Tang M, Lowy FD. Extracellular matrix heparan sulfate modulates endothelial cell susceptibility to Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of Cellular Physiology 1997;173:102. PMID: 932654.
  2. Alston WK, Ahern JW. Increase in the rate of nosocomial Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea during shortages of piperacillin-tazobactam and piperacillin. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2004; 53: 549. PMID: 14963072.
  3. Ahern JW, Alston WK. Use of longitudinal surveillance data to assess the effectiveness of infection control in critical care. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2009; 30: 1109. PMID: 19803721.
  4. Alston WK. Pitfalls of public reporting. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2010; 31: 985. PMID: 20636131.
  5. Ahern JW, Noyes CD, Smith LM, Alston WK. Twenty years of infection prevention: A longitudinal perspective from an academic medical center. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2022;43:115-7, https://doi:10.1017/ice.2021.312. PMID 34350822