Associate Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine
Lars Westblade is an Associate Professor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell Medicine, and the Director of Clinical Microbiology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He did his undergraduate and postgraduate training in biochemistry at the University of Birmingham, UK; followed by postgraduate studies in molecular biophysics at The Rockefeller University, US. Subsequently, he completed a CPEP-approved fellowship in Medical and Public Health Laboratory Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, US. He has a special interest in antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, microbial diagnostics, antimicrobial stewardship, and Weirdobacter weirdii organisms that keep clinical microbiologists and infectious diseases physicians excited!
Disclosure: Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Grant/Research Support; BioFire Diagnostics, LLC (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Grant/Research Support; Hardy Diagnostics (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Grant/Research Support; Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Advisor or Review Panel member, Grant/Research Support; Shionogi, Inc. (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Advisor or Review Panel member
Friday, October 23, 2020
4:15pm – 5:30pm EDT
