美国David L. Paterson教授简历

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David Paterson is Director of the Antibiotic Management Program, Chief of Transplant Infectious Diseases and Associate Professor of Medicine within the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).
He graduated from the University of Queensland Medical School, Brisbane, Australia, in 1988. He completed internal medicine residency and an Infectious Disease fellowship in Australia before coming to Pittsburgh as a visiting researcher in 1997. In 1999, Dr Paterson became director of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control at UPMC’s newly established hospital in Palermo, Italy. In September 2001 he returned to Pittsburgh to direct the hospital’s Antibiotic Management Program.

He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. He has been the first author of two major articles in the Annals of Internal Medicine, has written editorials in Clinical Infectious Diseases and Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology and has written more than 15 book chapters. Honors include the American Society for Microbiology’s Merck Irving Sigal Memorial Award for “significant research in microbiology and infectious diseases”. He has had continuous federal funding since 2001, with current grants extending to 2009.

His main research interests are in the epidemiology, laboratory detection and clinical relevance of mechanisms of resistance in Gram negative bacilli. He also studies the utilization of antibiotics and their impact on antibiotic resistance, and the effects of adherence/compliance with antimicrobials on the advent of resistance. He has clinical expertise in the treatment of infections in transplant recipients and the management of bacterial and fungal infections in critically ill patients.

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流行病学、实验实检验、耐药机制与抗菌药物临床应用、感染性疾病的治疗。。。。。。令人期待:)