Professor Emeritus
University of Washington
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Ann Stapleton, MD, FACP, FIDSA is Professor of Medicine Emeritus in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington, Full Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California Riverside, and Attending Physician and Program Director of the Infectious Disease Fellowship at Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage, California. She has been actively involved in clinical and laboratory-based research on urinary tract infections for over 30 years. Her work includes clinical and mechanistic studies of prevention of recurrent UTI using antimicrobials, Lactobacillus probiotics and cranberry, studies of the vaginal microbiome in recurrent UTI, and the genetic basis of susceptibility to these infections.
Dr. Stapleton has served on numerous NIH study sections, serves as a member of the NIH PLUS Consortium dedicated to preventing lower urinary tract symptoms in women and served on an American Urological Association guidelines committee that produced the first evidence-based guideline for recurrent UTI. Clinically, Dr. Stapleton provides specialty consulting regarding complicated UTI and has served over 25 years as a primary care provider to people living with HIV. She currently provides primary care to PLHIV in Palm Springs, California, home to one of the largest communities of long-term survivors in the United States.
Dr Stapleton received her AB from Harvard University and her MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She trained in internal medicine at the University of California San Francisco followed by fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington.