Mark E. Rupp, MD

Interim Chair, UNMC Department of Internal Medicine
Professor, UNMC Division of Infectious Diseases

Phone: 402-559-8650
Fax: 402-559-5581

After serving as the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases for 14 years, Dr. Rupp is now Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.  

Dr. Rupp received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas and holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He underwent internship and residency training in Internal Medicine and completed Fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at Virginia Commonwealth University.

He is a Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine in the subspecialty area of Infectious Diseases.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), and the Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America (SHEA).  He is a Past-President of SHEA (2009) and gave the SHEA lecture at IDWeek in 2020.  Dr Rupp has served as a consultant for the US Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NIH, and VA. He recently served as the Chief-of-Staff at Nebraska Medicine. 

Dr. Rupp has published nearly 200 articles, 48 chapters, 3 textbooks, 272 abstracts, and holds 3 US patents. He frequently presents papers at national and international meetings, serves as a guest lecturer, and is an active teacher and researcher.  Dr. Rupp’s research interests are in the areas of healthcare-associated infections, staphylococcal disease, blood culture contamination, and antimicrobial and laboratory stewardship.