Med/Peds Resident
Michigan Medicine
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Dr. Joseph Ladines-Lim, MD, PhD is a resident physician in Internal Medicine-Pediatrics at Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan. He majored in Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland and then completed a PhD in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, writing his thesis on enzyme engineering in the context of quantitative studies of reactive oxygen species. Piving towards global health and medicine, he spent a year working at the University of Cape Town in South Africa on case studies in health innovation across locations in Africa, Asia, and South America. He matriculated at Yale School of Medicine, where he worked on research projects on Zika in Brazil and HIV/TB in South Africa and served as one of the leaders of the student-run free clinic in New Haven. At Michigan, he has focused on antimicrobial stewardship and studied the issue in local refugee and immigrant populations in Southeast Michigan. He has also used large administrative databases to explore the prevalence of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions in safety-net populations nationwide. He also has an interest in firearm injury prevention and had led a quality improvement initiative on this issue, with ongoing work involving characterization of practices related to screening and counseling and comparison between specialties. He plans to enter Infectious Disease Fellowship after residency and continue his work in antimicrobial stewardship, health equity, health services and outcomes research, and global and public health.
