Robin Patel
Robin Patel is an American microbiologist and was the 2019–2020 president of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).[1] She is the Elizabeth P. and Robert E. Allen Professor of Individualized Medicine 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.[2] She is also director of the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG) Laboratory Center of the National institutes of Health.[3]
Robin Patel MD(CM), D(ABMM), F(AAM), FIDSA, FACP | |
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| Born | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Education | BA Chemistry, Princeton University, 1985 MD(CM), McGill University, 1989 |
| Occupation | Elizabeth P. and Robert E. Allen Professor of Individualized Medicine, Director of Infectious Disease Research laboratory |
| Website | Mayo faculty page |
Early life
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, she and her family moved to the suburbs of Montreal, Québec, when she was four years old. Her parents are Barbara A. Foster and Nagin K. Patel, and she has two younger siblings, Janice E Patel and Harish DS Patel. She attended John Rennie High School following which she spent a year at Marianapolis College in Montreal and then matriculated to Princeton University in 1982.
Education and career
Patel earned a BA degree in chemistry from Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi in 1985. She earned an MD from McGill University, graduating in 1989. At McGill University, she was supported by a Greville Smith scholarship and received several scholarly awards/prizes (Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Besner Prize, Mosby Scholarship Book Award, Newell W. Philpott Prize, Osler Medical Aid Foundation Bursary & Commonwealth Medical Elective Bursary and Elizabeth Ann Munro Gordon Prize).
She completed a residency in internal medicine at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, followed by fellowships in infectious diseases and clinical microbiology. She began working at the Mayo Clinic after the completion of her fellowships in 1996.[4] In 2003, she received a Department of Medicine Laureate Award - Mayo Clinic, and in 2008 an Outstanding Woman in Medicine award from the Mayo Chapters of the AMSA & AMWA. In 2019, she delivered the Maxwell Finland Award Lecture at IDWeek (Washington, DC).
Patel's scientific contributions includes authorship in over 500 peer-reviewed publications and over 20 book chapters. She has served as an editor for the Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID).[4] She is also an advisor to the Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) Subcommittee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing.
Awards, honors, and memberships[5]
- 2022 awardee of Hamao Umezawa Memorial Award (HUMA) from International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC)[6]
- President of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), 2019-2020
- Elizabeth P. and Robert E. Allen Professor of Individualized Medicine, 2017 - present
- BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology, ASM, 2015
- Mayo Medical School Distinguished Service Award, 2015
- Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, 2012 - present
- Editor, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2009 - 2019
- Member of editorial board, Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2002 - present
References
- "ASM Board of Directors: President: Robin Patel". American Society for Microbiology. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
- "Robin Patel, M.D." Mayo Clinic. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
- "About the Laboratory Center". ARLG. 2019-02-15. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
- Munson, Erik (2020-08-24). "Biographical Feature: Robin Patel, M.D.(C.M.), D(ABMM), F(AAM), FIDSA, FACP". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 58 (9). doi:10.1128/jcm.01259-20. ISSN 0095-1137. PMC 7448637. PMID 32580947.
- "Robin Patel, M.D." ASM.org. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
- Media, M. T. C. "Hamao Umezawa Memorial Award | International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy". www.isac.world. Retrieved 2022-03-17.