Robin Patel

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Robin Patel
Born	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Education	Princeton University McGill University
Occupation(s)	Doctor, researcher
Medical career
Profession	Professor of Microbiology and Medicine at the Mayo Clinic
Field	Microbiology
Institutions	Mayo Clinic
Sub-specialties	Infectious disease, immunology
Research	Biofilm-mediated infections, prosthetic joint infection, Animal models of infection, Clinical bacteriology diagnostic assays
Website	Mayo faculty page

Robin Patel is a Canadian born microbiologist and Elizabeth P. and Robert E. Allen Professor of Individualized Medicine, a Professor of Microbiology, and a Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic. She is widely recognized as a leader in the field of clinical microbiology and has held a variety of leadership positions including 2019–2020 President of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)^[1] and Director of the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG) Laboratory Center of the National institutes of Health.^[2] She is currently the Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the Mayo Clinic, and Director of the Mayo Clinic's Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, where she studies biofilms, antimicrobial resistance, periprosthetic joint infection and diagnostic testing of bacteria.^[3]