Clinical Microbiologist
Mayo Clinic, MN, United States
Dr. Patricia (Trish) Simner, PhD, D(ABMM), is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the Mayo Clinic and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. As a clinical microbiologist, she is the Director of the Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Laboratory at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She completed her PhD at the University of Manitoba in Manitoba, Canada and a two-year Clinical Microbiology Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. She is widely regarded internationally as an expert in the field of mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance. Her research has focused on understanding the molecular epidemiology and mechanisms of resistance of gram-negative bacteria, in particular those harboring β-lactamases. She also is involved in investigating novel diagnostic tools to rapidly identify infectious pathogens and in developing next-generation sequencing modalities as methodology in clinical microbiology laboratories.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
2:21 PM - 2:33 PM US ET