David Patrick
MD, FRCPC
Lead Scholar
Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia; Medical Epidemiology Lead for Antimicrobial Resistance, BC Centre for Disease Control
Research Focus
Antibiotics and resistance, pharmacoepidemiology, responding to the threat of antimicrobial resistance at population level, response to emerging infectious diseases, linking antibiotics in infancy to risk of atopy
David Patrick is an infectious diseases specialist and epidemiologist with a career interest in responding to emerging infectious diseases. He is a Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC and has served as Director of that School and as Research Director at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control.
He has published over 250 papers and books on topics ranging from HIV to COVID-19. His main research focuses on containing the threat of antimicrobial resistance and understanding the connection between antibiotic use and atopic disease at the population level.