Robin Patel
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Robin Patel | |
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| 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]
Born to a family of modest means in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Robin Patel and her family moved to the suburbs of Montreal, Québec, when she was four years old.[4] Her parents are Barbara A. Foster and Nagin K. Patel, and she has two younger siblings, Janice E Patel and Harish DS Patel. She attended John Rennie High School following which she spent a year at Marianapolis College in Montreal and then matriculated to Princeton University in 1982.[5]
Dr. Patel is married to Norbert Campeau, who is a radiologist also at the Mayo Clinic.[6] They have two children, David and Michelle, both of whom attended Mayo High School and were named as top achievers.[7][8]
