Dr. Allison McGeer

Chief Infection Prevention and Control Consultant

headshot of  Dr. Allison McGeer - Chief Infection Prevention and Control Consultant (photo credit: Sinai Health)

Dr. McGeer is a premier infection control specialist in Canada. Her major research interests are in the prevention of infection in hospitals and long-term care homes, and the use of surveillance to advance the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases.

Dr. McGeer is a Professor in the Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto. She currently serves on Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization and on the infection control subcommittee of the Ontario Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee, and is a member of several local, provincial and national pandemic influenza committees.