Assistant in Pediatrics, Attending Physician
Boston Children's Hospital
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Dr. Lippa completed his undergraduate work at Washington University in St. Louis (MO, USA), where he majored in biochemistry and had his first research experience: eukaryotic genetics in the Dutcher Lab using the model organism Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. A summer working on ocular HSV-1 infection in the Wechsler Lab at University of California, Irvine in the Department of Ophthalmology convinced him to pursue a career in both microbiology and Infectious Diseases. He went on to complete his combined MD and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where his dissertation work in the Goulian Lab identified a conserved small peptide inhibitor of the PhoQ/PhoP two-component system in E. coli, a principal cause of chromosomal colistin resistance in Enterobacteriaceae. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at St. Louis Children's Hospital and fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Lippa is currently an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Boston Children's Hospital and Instructor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and he will be sharing some of his postdoctoral work in the Dove Lab on the regulation of transcription by the global silencers MvaT and MvaU in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.