Toronto, Ontario, Canada
I am a Medical Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases Physician at Sinai Health System & University Health Network in Toronto, Canada and an associate professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. I received my Medical Degree from the University of Toronto in 1996 and completed Internal Medicine and Medical Microbiology Residencies at the University of Toronto and an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Stanford University, California. I received her Masters of Public Health with a focus on Epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. My broad research interests include: the epidemiology and detection of antimicrobial resistance; the use of fecal microbiota transplantation in patients with gastrointestinal dysbiosis; and the optimization of microbiology laboratory practices using rapid diagnostics, automation, and artificial intelligence.