Dr. Gonzalo Bearman

Gonzalo Bearman, MD, MPH, is an infectious diseases physician and hospital epidemiologist. He is Chair of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Richard P. Wenzel Professor of Medicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health System, where he also serves as Hospital Epidemiologist. Clinically, Dr. Bearman focuses on comprehensive infectious diseases care across inpatient and outpatient settings, hospital infection prevention and control, and antimicrobial stewardship. His research centers on the epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections, implementation of infection prevention strategies, and antimicrobial stewardship. Recognized for excellence, he received the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Barry Farr Award and the Medical Society of Virginia Salute to Service Award, and has been named among Richmond Magazine's Best Doctors in Richmond. He also holds leadership roles as Editor in Chief of Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology and as founder and Editor in Chief of the Medical Literary Messenger, and he leads global health initiatives with the VCU Global Health Program’s Honduras Medical Relief Brigade. Dr. Bearman earned his MD from the SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and an MPH from Columbia University. He completed an internal medicine residency at SUNY at Buffalo, where he served as chief resident, followed by an infectious diseases fellowship and a preventive medicine and public health residency at Cornell University.