Ashley Drews, MD

Dr. Drews is a native Texan and graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1988 Summa Cum Laude with Special Honors in Plan II. She attended Baylor College of Medicine and graduated in 1992 Summa Cum Laude. Dr. Drews did her internal medicine internship and residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School from 1992-1995. She served as Chief Resident at the Brockton VAMC during her last year of residency. Dr. Drews returned to Texas and completed her infectious diseases fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in 1997. At the completion of her fellowship, Dr. Drews joined Baylor College of Medicine faculty as Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine working on the busy infectious diseases consult service at Houston Methodist Hospital. Excellence in compassionate patient care and teaching were her primary foci. In 2006 Dr. Drews transitioned from Baylor College of Medicine to a primary affiliation with Houston Methodist Hospital where she is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine with the Houston Methodist Academic Institute and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. She serves as the Clinical Chief of the Infectious Diseases Division.

In 2001 Dr. Drews was appointed to be the Hospital Epidemiologist of Houston Methodist Hospital and in 2005 she became the Chair of the Infection Prevention and Control Care Management and Performance Improvement Committee. Dr. Drews is committed to the prevention of infectious diseases and hospital acquired infections, and at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic she was promoted to System Epidemiologist for the Houston Methodist Hospital System in March 2020. She worked tirelessly to help lead the System’s COVID-19 response and to help develop and refine protocols to provide the highest level of care to patients with COVID-19 while maintaining safety for patients, staff, and visitors throughout the Methodist Hospital System. Dr. Drews assumed an important educational role for physicians, leaders and staff at the hospital system and the community with rapidly evolving information related to COVID-19, and she contributed to multiple press articles, live news interviews, and Houston Methodist livestream Town Hall chats as an expert and panelist on the COVID-19 pandemic. She was awarded System Physician Award from the Houston Methodist Quality and Patient Safety Awards in 2020 for her unwavering efforts.