A recent paper, entitled, “Multistate point-prevalence survey of health care-associated infections,” published on March 2014 in the New England Journal of Medicine, and co-authored by the Department's Marion Kainer, has received the CDC’s 2015 Charles C. Shepard Science Award in the Assessment category. It was selected from among 23 excellent papers nominated in this category from across the agency. This is a great honor, and a testament to the outstanding work done by you and your colleagues on this project!
Full paper: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1306801