Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Lenox Hill

Hospital and Professor of Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine in New York, USA. ProfessorTapper is a member of the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) which reviewed and edited the CDC’s guidance documents on the care of suspect and confirmed Ebola patients in the United States. He also served as a member of the select advisory group of the New York City Department of Health appointed by New York Mayor Bill De Blasio to advise the Health Department on infection control challenges associated with the return of an Ebola infected physician from Liberia to New York City.