Chief Infection Control Officer, Children’s National Hospital
Children's National Hospital, US
Dr. Xiaoyan Song is the Chief Infection Control Officer at Children’s National Hospital and a Professor in Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C. Dr. Song received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and her medical training from Wuhan Medical University in China. She began her career in Infection Prevention and Control in 1999 and has profound experience in infection prevention practice and program management, education, and research. Her career in Infection Prevention and Control began at Johns Hopkins Hospital and rose to be a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. In 2007, she joined Children’s National Medical Center to lead the Infection Control program. Under her leadership, the Children’s National Medical Center received the inaugurate award from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) for eliminating bloodstream infections in 2011 in patients with a central line. In 2014, the hospital was designated by HHS as one of the five pediatric Ebola treatment centers nationwide. In 2016, Dr. Song was selected to serve as a member of the District of Columbia Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Prevention Advisory Committee. In 2018, she was appointed as the Chair of the External Affairs Committee with the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). Her research interests include outcome and cost-analysis and clinical studies. She has mentored many trainees and junior faculty and published 60 peer-reviewed research papers including prestigious journals such as JAMA and Lancet. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she co-led the institution’s response and successfully delivered a perfect score in protecting healthcare providers from acquiring COVID-19 at work. Dr. Song is deeply committed to leveraging clinical data to enhance healthcare delivery, ensuring efficiency, quality, safety, and equity for all.
