Dr. Mark Rupp: There is a great deal of beauty and goodness in the world, you just have to open your eyes to see it

Dr. Mark Rupp served as Medical Director of the Infection Prevention Department at Nebraska Medicine for 28 years and as Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases for 14 years before assuming his current role as Interim Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in 2025. He is a Past President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA; 2009) and delivered the SHEA Lecture at IDWeek 2020. Dr. Rupp has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles, 48 book chapters, three textbooks, and holds three U.S. patents. He is an internationally recognized expert in clinical infectious diseases and healthcare epidemiology and is a frequent national and international speaker, educator, and media contributor.