Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of California San Diego
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Dr. Michele Ritter is an infectious disease physician at the University of California, San Diego. She hails from Michigan, and attended the University of Michigan for her undergraduate degree before going to Georgetown University for Medical School in Washington, DC. After finishing her internal medicine residency at Georgetown University Medical Center, she completed an infectious diseases fellowship at Albert Einstein University/Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, New York. She has been faculty of the University of California, San Diego infectious diseases division since 2010, when she joined as the Director of the Outpatient Parenteral Therapy (OPAT) Program. She has continued to lead the OPAT program, served as the co-chair of the Antimicrobial Utilization Committee and currently serves as the Infectious Disease Clinic Medical Director and the Director of the Outpatient COVID-19 clinic. Dr. Ritter also sees patients in an interdisciplinary clinic with orthopaedic surgery at UCSD, and has a special interest in orthopaedic infections.
