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Robert Haley, MD
Endowed Title: U.S. Armed Forces Veterans Distinguished Chair for Medical Research, Honoring [Robert Haley, M.D., and] America's Gulf War Veterans
Contact Information
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390
robert.haley@utsouthwestern.edu
To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.
Biography
Robert W. Haley, M.D., is Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of the Division of Epidemiology in the Internal Medicine Department at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and holder of the U.S. Armed Forces Veterans Distinguished Chair for Medical Research Honoring America's Gulf War Veterans. He received his B.A. degree in Philosophy and Social Sciences from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he served as instructor in Philosophy for a year. He received his M.D. degree from UT Southwestern Medical School at Dallas and served an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. He spent 10 years (1973-1983) at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), serving as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service. At CDC he served as an epidemic investigator in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a resident in Preventive Medicine, Director of the Hospital Infections Program, and Director of the nationwide Study on the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control (SENIC Project), a nationwide study to identify methods of controlling hospital-acquired infections. He achieved the rank of O-6 and received the U.S. Public Health Service Commendation Medal for his research contributions while at the CDC. Returning to Dallas in 1983, Dr. Haley founded the Division of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. He directs courses in clinical epidemiology, biostatistics, computing and disease prevention for medical students and practicing physicians; teaches research design in the University's Research Methods course for graduate students and junior faculty; and lectures widely on disease epidemiology and prevention. He has been an attending physician on the internal medicine services at the Dallas Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Parkland Memorial Hospital and has served on the infection control committees of Parkland and the Zale-Lipshy University Medical Center. He chaired the Infection Control Indicators Task Force of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and has been a member of the U.S. Public Health Service's National Advisory Committee on Hospital Infection Control Practices. He is certified as a specialist by the American Board of Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the American College of Epidemiology, and served as a senior editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology. He is listed in The Best Doctors in America (publishers, Woodward/White, Inc.). Dr. Haley has conducted extensive research on the epidemiology and prevention of hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infections to improve the quality of hospital care and, more recently, the Gulf War syndrome. He has published over 100 articles in scientific journals. Topics of particular interest have been nationwide research studies on the efficacy of hospital infection control programs, multivariate intrinsic risk indexes for use in comparing hospitals; infection rates,
Education
| Residency | Centers for Disease Control, Preventive Medicine (1976) |
| Fellowship | Centers for Disease Control, Preventive Medicine (1975) |
| Internship/Residency | Parkland Memorial Hospital, Internal Medicine (1973) |
| Medical School | UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (1971) |
Research Interests
Publications
Haley RW, Billecke S, La Du BN. , Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology , 1999; (157):227-233
Haley RW, Kurt TL, Hom J. , JAMA , 1997; (277):215-222
Haley RW, Cushion NB, Tenover FC, Bannerman TL, Dryer D, Ross J, Sanchez PJ, Siegel JD. , Journal of Infectious Diseases , 1995; (171):614-624
Haley RW, White JW, Culver DH, Hughes JM. , JAMA , 1987; (257):1611-1614
Haley RW, Culver DH, White JW, Morgan WM, Emori TG. , American Journal of Epidemiology , 1985; (121):183-205
Haley RW, Spence JS, Carmack PS, Gunst RF, Schucany WR, Petty F, Devous MD Sr, Bonte FJ, Trivedi MH. , Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging , 2008; ((in press))
Spence JS, Carmack PS, Gunst RF, Schucany WR, Woodward WA, Haley RW. , JASA Journal of the American Statistical Association , 2007; (478):464-473
Victor RG, Haley RW, Willett D, Peshock RG, Vaeth PC, Leonard D, Basit M, Cooper RS, Iannacchione VG, Visscher W, Staaf J, Hobbs HH for the Dallas Heart Study Investigators , American Journal of Cardiology , 2004; (93):1473-1480
Haley RW, Vongpatanasin W, Wolfe GI, Bryan WW, Armitage R, Hoffmann RF, Callahan TS, Charuvastra E, Shell WE, Marshall WW, Victor RG , American Journal of Medicine , 2004; (117):469-478
Haley RW , Neurology , 2003; (60):750-756
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Honors/Awards
A society for the advancement of scientific and practical medicine (2004)
Southern Methodist University (2000)
Recognition based on a national poll of physicians (1994)
U.S. PHS award for research accomplishments at CDC (1976)
A national medical honor society (1971)