Clinical Fellow
Penn Medicine
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Joseph Ladines-Lim, MD, PhD is currently an Infectious Diseases fellow and student in the Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology program at the University of Pennsylvania. His current research focus is two-fold: to evaluate the impact of local and national policy on key outcome metrics within diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship, and to examine clinical outcomes of difficult-to-treat infections, using Staphylococcus aureus as a model organism and incorporating patient characteristics, hospital data, and organism-level data (e.g. antibiotic susceptibilities, whole-genome sequencing). He has a particular interest in studying the above issues in vulnerable populations, such as those with substance use disorder, and determining which treatment regimens have the highest real-world effectiveness. In the past, he has worked on a wide range of projects, including basic sciences work on enzyme engineering and biophysics, global health fieldwork on the Zika virus in Brazil and tuberculosis in South Africa, and health services research on antimicrobial appropriateness using public surveillance data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Ladines-Lim received his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and MD at Yale School of Medicine in 2020. He completed combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency training at the University of Michigan in 2024.