UC San Diego Health Infectious Disease Expert on Importance of Annual Influenza Vaccinations

Newswise — It’s National Influenza Vaccination Week! Francesca Torriani, MD, infectious disease specialist at UC San Diego, is available to discuss importance of receiving an annual flu shot, who should get them, how it can help reduces risk of illness and that it’s not too late to receive benefits from the vaccine.

Biography :

Francesca J. Torriani, MD, is a professor of clinical medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Diego. She sees patients in the Owen Clinic and the infectious diseases clinic. She also cares for people during hospital stays.

Dr. Torriani is medical director of the UC San Diego Infection Prevention and Clinical Epidemiology and the tuberculosis control units at UC San Diego Health. In collaboration with Atlas Public Health, she has been instrumental in creating an extensive electronic microbiology surveillance and pharmacy utilization program called Guardian that allows for internal data mining, surveillance, unit-specific antibiogram production, and external reporting of contagious infections to San Diego Public Health and to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) of Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI).

Since 2010, Dr. Torriani has served on the Metrics Group for CA HAI Reporting, an independent group of experts discussing best standards and methods for HAI reporting in California. 

She is fluent in five languages: Italian, French, German, Spanish and English.