Felicia A. Scaggs Huang, MD, MS
- Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control, Division of Infectious Diseases
- Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
- felicia.scaggshuang@cchmc.org
- Board Certified
About
Biography
I obtained my degree in medicine at Rush Medical College. I completed my internship, residency, and chief residency in pediatrics at Rush University Children's Hospital, as well as a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at Cincinnati Children’s.
MD: Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL, 2012.
MS: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2019.
Residency: Pediatrics, Rush University Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL, 2015.
Chief Residency: Pediatrics, Rush University Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL, 2016.
Fellowship: Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2019.
Certification: General Pediatrics, 2015; Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 2019.
Interests
Pediatric infectious diseases; infection control and prevention
Services and Specialties
Interests
Infection prevention and control in the critically ill child
Research Areas
Insurance Information
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Publications
A call to action: the SHEA research agenda to combat healthcare-associated infections. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2024; 45:1-18.
An outbreak after all: Cutibacterium acnes among pediatric patients with cerebrospinal fluid diversion device infections highlights gaps in guidelines. Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology. 2024; 4:e128.
Adherence to Personal Protective Equipment practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pilot study. Infection Prevention in Practice. 2024; 6:100369.
Infectious Diseases Evaluation of the Child With Suspected Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. 2024; 13:220-227.
Coccidioidomycosis (Coccidioides Species). Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics: Volume 1-2. 2024.
Nosocomial exposure of health care workers to a visitor with active pulmonary tuberculosis in a pediatric intensive care unit: A contact investigation. American Journal of Infection Control. 2023; 51:1189-1191.
An outbreak of Burkholderia contaminans at a quaternary children's hospital linked to equipment reprocessing. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2023; 44:1267-1273.
Beta-Lactam Allergy Association with Surgical Site Infections in Pediatric Procedures: A Matched Cohort Study. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. 2023; 12:123-127.
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Unmasked the Challenges Faced by Early-Stage Faculty in Infectious Diseases: A Call to Action. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2023; 76:753-759.
Ureaplasma urealyticum. Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Churchill Livingstone; 2023.
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Felicia Scaggs Huang, MD4/8/2025
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