Dr. Nick Daneman is a clinician scientist in the division of infectious diseases at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, is cross-appointed in the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, at the University of Toronto, and is an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. He is supported by a Clinician Scientist salary award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Using hospital, clinical trial, and population-based data sources, his research program aims to optimize the treatment and prevention of healthcare associated infection, with overlapping themes including antibiotic stewardship, critical care infections and C. difficile. The BALANCE research program has received a $2 million grant from CIHR aiming to determine the optimal treatment duration for blood stream infections in critically ill patients.