With our Shabbat Table Talk series, our goal is to invite local leaders to join in conversation with Rabbi Strauss to discuss topics that are important and relevant to our Beth Yeshurun community.  We hope that these conversations will be both informative he and thought-provoking and that you’ll bring these topics back to YOUR Shabbat Table to keep the conversation going!

This month we welcome Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Ed Septimus.  Rabbi Strauss will talk with him about the latest COVID-19 news, what it means for Beth Yeshurun, and what we can learn from this pandemic experience.

The conversation will begin about 6:30pm during services. 

Stay on the Website, YouTube channel, or Facebook Live following services to join us!

More about Dr. Septimus:

Edward J. Septimus, M.D., F.I.D.S.A, F.A.C.P, F.S.H.E.A.

Dr. Ed Septimus received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in 1972.  Dr. Septimus went on to complete his postgraduate training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Dr. Ed Septimus is board certified in both internal medicine and infectious diseases.  He was VP Research and Infectious Diseases HCA Healthcare until 2018.  Prior to HCA, he  was the medical director of infectious diseases and occupational health for Memorial Hermann Healthcare System.

He has served on the Board of Directors of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and was on the IDSA Antimicrobial Resistance Committee, the SHEA Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, and the IDSA Quality Measurement Committee.   He was the first recipient of the IDSA Watanakunakorn Clinician Award.  In 2011 he was appointed to the Healthcare-Associated Infections/Preventable Adverse Events Advisory Panel for the Texas Department of State Health Services.  He was awarded the John S Dunn Sr. Outstanding Teacher Award in 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014.  He is on the FDA Anti-Infective Drug Advisory Group and is co-chair of the NQF Patient Safety Steering Committee.

He holds a faculty position as Adjunct  Professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine,  Senior Lecturer Department of Population Medicine Harvard Medical  School, and Professor Distinguished Senior Fellow, School of Public Health, George Mason University.  He has published over 120 articles and chapters.