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Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Julia E. Szymczak, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Szymczak is a medical sociologist with expertise in the social and cultural determinants of decision-making and behavior in healthcare organizations. Through her research, she seeks to achieve two overarching goals: (1) generate knowledge about the social mechanisms that produce safe, high quality, and equitable healthcare and (2) apply that knowledge to the design and implementation of interventions that improve patient outcomes, minimize unintended consequences, and are sustainable. She is an internationally recognized expert on the sociobehavioral dynamics that shape antimicrobial use across clinical contexts in human and veterinary medicine and in the application of implementation science frameworks to research in antimicrobial stewardship.