Infectious Diseases Fellow
Penn Medicine
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dr. Joseph Ladines-Lim, MD, PhD is an Infectious Diseases Fellow at Penn Medicine. He majored in Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland and then completed a PhD in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, writing his thesis on enzyme engineering in the context of quantitative studies of reactive oxygen species. Piving towards global health and medicine, he spent a year working at the University of Cape Town in South Africa on case studies in health innovation across locations in Africa, Asia, and South America. He matriculated at Yale School of Medicine, where he worked on research projects on Zika in Brazil and HIV/TB in South Africa and served as one of the leaders of the student-run free clinic in New Haven. He completed combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency at the Michigan Medicine (University of Michigan), where he focused on antimicrobial stewardship, local refugee and immigrant populations in Southeast Michigan, and firearm injury prevention. During fellowship, he hopes to continue his work in antimicrobial stewardship, health equity, health services and outcomes research, and global and public health.