Dr. Manuel Mah

University Position

- Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences

Clinical Interests

- Infection Prevention and Control
- Epidemiology

Research Interests

- Healthcare-associated infections
- Hand hygiene
- Social marketing

Graduating Year

University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1985

Residency/Fellowship

- Internal Medicine, University of Alberta, 1986-1989.
- Fellow, Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta, 1989-1991.
- Clinical Epidemiology Fellowship, Medical Research Council of Canada, 1991-1993.
- Healthcare Research Fellowship, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, 1993-1994.
- Master of Public Health, University of North Carolina (USA), 1994.

Publications (Last 5 Years)

Memish ZA, Mah MW. 2003. Less usual indications: Mycobacterial, Brucella, Yersinia, Franciscella and other infections. In: Ronald AR and Low DE, editors. Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser Verlag AG.
Mah JK, Kellner J, Kunimoto D, Kaura D, Mah MW. 2005. An infant with central nervious system complications of disseminated tuberculosis. Canadian Journal of the Neurological Sciences; 32:112-114.
Mah MW, Hagan NA, Pauling-Shepard K, Standish-Hawthorne J, Mysak M, Lye T, Louie TJ. 2005. Understanding influenza vaccination attitudes at a Canadian Cancer Centre. American Journal of Infection Control; 33:243-50.
Mah MW, Meyers G. 2006. Toward a socioethical approach to behaviour change. American Journal of Infection Control; 34:73-9.
Bush K, Mah M. 2006. Light the fire: novel perspectives in healthcare education. Canadian Journal of Infection Control; 21(2):78-9.
Mah MW, Deshpande S, Rothschild ML. 2006. Social marketing: a behavior change technology for infection control. American Journal of Infection Control; 34:452-7.
Storck AJ, Laupland K, Read RR, Mah MW, Gill MJ, Nevitt D, Louie TJ. 2006. Development of a health-related Quality of Life Questionnaire for patients with extremity soft tissue infections. BMC Infectious Diseases; 6:148.
Wong S, Pabbaraju K, Burk VF, Broukhanski GC, Fox J, Louie T, Mah MW, Bernard K, Tilley PAG. 2006. Use of sequence based typing for investigation of a case of nosocomial Legionellosis. Journal of Medical Microbiology; 55(12):1707-10.
Bush K, Mah MW, Meyers G, Armstrong P, Stoesz J, Strople S. 2007. Going dotty: a practical guide for installing new hand hygiene products. American Journal of Infection Control; 35:390-3.
Mah MW, Tam YC, Deshpande S. A social marketing analysis of two decades of hand hygiene promotion. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (in press).
Mah MW. Social marketing in healthcare. In: Dwivedi A. (editor). The Handbook of Research on Information Technology Management and Clinical Data Administration in Healthcare. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global (in press).