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Voting Member (SGE): Robin Patel, MD, D(ABMM), FIDSA, FACP, F(AAM)








  
  
    

  
      





**Robin Patel, MD, D(ABMM), FIDSA, FACP, F(AAM); Professor of Medicine, Professor of Microbiology, and Elizabeth P. and Robert E. Allen Professor of Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic; Rochester, MN**

Robin Patel is the Elizabeth P. and Robert E. Allen Professor of Individualized Medicine and the Director of the Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, Co-Director of the Clinical Bacteriology Laboratory, Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and former Chair of the Division of Clinical Microbiology, at the Mayo Clinic. Since the beginning of her tenure at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Patel has focused her research on bacterial infections. Her work focuses on three major areas: (1) understanding antibiotic resistance through a clinical lens, (2) improvement of next-generation diagnostic techniques, and (3) understanding the inherent biology of periprosthetic infection. She has published over 595 peer-reviewed publications and is supported by the NIH and CDC. She is the Director of the Laboratory Center of the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group of the NIH.

Dr. Patel has been involved in setting standards for diagnostic and clinical care of bacterial infections, as evidenced by the (select) positions she has held or holds within the American Society for Microbiology (President, Secretary), American Board of Pathology (Microbiology Test Writing Committee Member), Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (Subcommittee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Voting Member), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Council Member), National Board of Medical Examiners (Microbiology/Immunology Test Material Development Committee Chair), Journal of Clinical Microbiology (Associate Editor), and Clinical Infectious Diseases (Associate Editor).

                    
  


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