Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series
2022- 2023 Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Clinical Sciences
“Disentangling Antimicrobial Resistance: Insights into a silent pandemic”
presented by
Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 4:30 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
650 W. 168th St., 1st Floor
Reception to follow in the Schaefer Awards Gallery
Registration is required
This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™
Biography
Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, MD, PhD
Dr. Uhlemann is associate professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed her medical training at the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tubingen, Germany, and received her PhD from the University of London. Dr. Uhlemann completed her residency in internal medicine and fellowship training in infectious diseases at Columbia University.
Dr. Uhlemann’s research focuses on the mechanisms and evolution of bacterial resistance to antibiotics and how drug-resistant bacteria thrive and compete with other organisms within the human gut microbiome. She also studies the contributions of the microbiome to chronic diseases. She directs the Microbiome & Pathogen Collaborative Center in the Department of Medicine at Columbia. During her tenure at Columbia, Dr. Uhlemann has been a Paul A. Marks Scholar and an Irving Scholar and was named Mentor of the Year by the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research in 2020. Dr. Uhlemann is president-elect of the Infectious Diseases Society of New York, a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Related Information
Past Distinguished Lecturers in the Clinical Sciences
2021–22 – George Hripcsak
2020–21 – Ali G. Gharavi
2019–20 – Jahar Bhattacharya
2018–19 – Ira Tabas
2017–18 – Alice Prince
2016–17 – Timothy Wang
2015–16 – Domenico Accili
2014–15 – Megan Sykes
2013–14 – Wendy Chung
2012–13 – Siddhartha Mukherjee
2010–11 – David P. Roye
2008–09 – Angela M. Christiano
2007–08 – Donald W. Landry
2005–06 – David A. Brenner
2003–04 – Rudolph Leibel
2002–03 – Barbara Barlow
2001–02 – Anne Gershon
2000–01 – Myron L. Weisfeldt
1999–2000 – Alan R. Tall
1998–99 – Donald Klein
1997–98 – Richard Mayeux
1996–97 – Herbert D. Kleber
1995–96 – Leonard Chess
1994–95 – Eric A. Rose
1993–94 – Harold C. Neu
1992–93 – Nancy S. Wexler
1991–92 – J. Thomas Bigger
1990–91 – Robert Canfield
1989–90 – I. Bernard Weinstein
1988–89 – Qais Al-Awqati
1987–88 – Lewis P. Rowland
1986–87 – L. Stanley James
1985–86 – DeWitt Goodman
1984–85 – Salvatore Di Mauro
1983–84 – Arthur Bank
1982–83 – Keith Reemtsma
1981–82 – Robert Mellins