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Microbiology Laboratory Director
Weill Cornell Medicine
Disclosure(s): Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc.: Grant/Research Support; BioFire Diagnostics, LLC: Grant/Research Support; Hardy Diagnostics: Grant/Research Support; Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.: Advisor/Consultant, Grant/Research Support; Shionogi, Inc.: Advisor/Consultant; Talis Biomedical: Advisor/Consultant
Lars Westblade is an Associate Professor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell Medicine, and the Director of Clinical Microbiology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He did his undergraduate and postgraduate training in biochemistry at the University of Birmingham, UK; followed by postgraduate studies in molecular biophysics at The Rockefeller University, US. Subsequently, he completed a CPEP-approved fellowship in Medical and Public Health Laboratory Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, US. He has a special interest in antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, microbial diagnostics, antimicrobial stewardship, and Weirdobacter weirdii organisms that keep clinical microbiologists and infectious diseases physicians excited!