About: Robin Patel

Robin Patel is a Canadian born microbiologist and was the 2019–2020 President of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). She is the Elizabeth P. and Robert E. Allen Professor of Individualized Medicine, a Professor of Microbiology, and a Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic. She is the Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the Mayo Clinic, and Director of the Mayo Clinic's Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, where she studies biofilms, antimicrobial resistance, periprosthetic joint infection and diagnostic testing of bacteria. She is the Director of the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG) Laboratory Center of the National institutes of Health.