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Clinical Assistant Professor Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
My name is Ricardo Arbulu, MD; I am a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, in the Division of Infectious Diseases. I serve as Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at UPMC Mercy and Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at UPMC Mercy. I completed medical school at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru, an Internal Medicine Residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI, and an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at University of Illinois at Chicago.
After graduation, I worked as an infectious diseases attending physician for seven years at McFarland Clinic, PC, a large multi-specialty group in Ames, IA. While there, I established the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Mary Greeley Medical Center and Boone County Hospitals. Antimicrobial Stewardship became my focus since then. In 2018, I joined UPMC in pursuit of matching this interest with my passion for medical education. I am interested in the “low hanging fruit” of antimicrobial stewardship, and its intersection with education of non-ID trained health care professionals.