Dale W. Bratzler, D.O., MPH
Dean
Chair & Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor
The Edward E. and Helen T. Bartlett Foundation Chair in Public Health
Dale W. Bratzler, DO, MPH, is the Dean of the Hudson College of Public Health and a Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Administration and Policy. He is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the College of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma (OU) Health Sciences.
Dr. Bratzler has a long history of working on healthcare performance measurement and reporting. He worked closely with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on the development of national quality reporting programs for hospitals, nursing homes and physician practices starting in the mid-90s. For more than 25 years, Dr. Bratzler has participated in research on prevention of surgical infections and on adult vaccination. He was appointed to the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee in 2010 and subsequently spent a year as a Senior Policy Advisor for the CDC. He has given more than 600 lectures nationally on health care quality topics with a particular emphasis on prevention of surgical site infections and adult vaccination and has published more than 100 manuscripts in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Journals of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs and others. According to Google Scholar, he has more than 23,000 citations of his publications by other authors and an H-index of 50.
Bratzler DW, Dellinger EP, Olsen KM, Perl T, Auwaerter PG, Bolon MK, Fish DN, Napolitano LM, Sawyer RG, Slain D, Steinberg JP, Weinstein RA. Clinical practice guidelines for antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgery. Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2013; 70:195-283. PMID: 23327981.
2. Berrios-Torres SI, Yi S, Bratzler DW, Ma A, Mu Y, Edwards JR, Zhu L, Jernigan JA. Activity of commonly used antimicrobial prophylaxis regimens against pathogens causing coronary artery bypass graft and arthroplasty surgical site infections in the United States, 2006-2009. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2014; 35:231-9. PMID: 24521586
3. Letourneau AR, Calderwood MS, Huang SS, Bratzler DW, Ma A, Yokoe DS. Harnessing claims to improve detection of surgical site infections following hysterectomy and colorectal surgery. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2013; 34:1321-3. PMID: 24225620
4. Anderson DJ, Podgomy K, Berrios-Torres SI, Bratzler DW, Dellinger EP, Green L, Nyquist A, Saiman L, Yokoe DS, Maragakis LL, Kaye KS. Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals – 2014 Update. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2014; 35:605-27. PMID: 24799638
5. Berríos-Torres SI, Umscheid CA, Bratzler DW, Leas B, Stone EC, Kelz RR, Reinke CE, Morgan S, Solomkin JS, Mazuski JE, Dellinger EP, Itani KMF, Berbari EF, Segreti J, Parvizi J, Blanchard J, Allen G, Kluytmans JAJW, Donlan R, Schecter WP; Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 2017. JAMA Surg. 2017; 152:784-791. PMID: 28467526
6. Wendelboe AM, Campbell J, Ding K, Bratzler DW, Beckman MC, Reyes N, Raskob GE. Incidence of venous thromboembolism in a racially diverse population of Oklahoma County, OK. Thromb Haemost. 2021 Jan 10. doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1722189. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33423245
7. Calderwood M, Anderson DJ, Bratzler DW, Dellinger EP, Garcia-Houchins S, Nyquist AC, Perkins KM, Preas MA, Saiman L, Schweizer M, Schaffzin JK, Yokoe DS, Maragakis L, Kaye KS. Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals: 2022 Update. Infect Contr Hosp Epidemiol. 2023, May 4. 1-26. doi:10.1017/ice.2023.67. PMID: 37137483
8. Ding K, Naqvi OH, Seeberger RJ, Bratzler DW, Wendelboe AM. A spatial-temporal ecologic analysis of COVID-19 vaccination coverage and outcomes, Oklahoma, USA, February 2020-December 2021. Emerg Infect Dis. 2024. November;30:2333-2342. doi: 10.3201/eid3011.231582. PMID: 39447160