Amanda Graves, one of the Clinical Research Coordinators in our DiRTE Lab, was awarded a 2025 SHEA William Rutala Scholarship, as presented by SHEA Board of Trustees president, David Weber, during SHEA Spring 2025.
The William Rutala Scholarship was established by SHEA to promote the training of a non-physician interested in the research of healthcare-associated infections. SHEA established this scholarship in honor of William Rutala, MS, MPH, PhD a prominent SHEA leader the field of healthcare epidemiology research. Dr. Rutala was the SHEA Lectureship awardee in 2012 and has worked tirelessly researching areas such as disinfection, sterilization, cross-infection, healthcare-associated infections, outbreaks, antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Awardees of the Bill Rutala Scholarship Awardees received complimentary registration for the full conference and tracks to attend at SHEA Spring 2025.
