Dr. Patricia (Trish) Simner, PhD, D(ABMM), is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Director of the Medical Bacteriology and Infectious Disease Sequencing Laboratories at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She completed her PhD at the University of Manitoba in Manitoba, Canada and a two
Biography
Dr. Patricia (Trish) Simner, PhD, D(ABMM), is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Director of the Medical Bacteriology and Infectious Disease Sequencing Laboratories at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. 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. Her work has resulted in greater than 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts.
Dr. Simner was the recipient of the American Society for Microbiology 2018 Diagnostics Young Investigator Award and recognized with the Faculty of Science Exceptional Achievement Honored Alumni Award from the alma mater, University of Manitoba. Recently, she was assigned World Expert and top 0.1% of scholars writing about β-lactam resistance over the past 10 years by ExpertScape’s PubMed.
Dr. Simner is a voting member on the Subcommittee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing for the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, she is the Early Career At-Large representative for the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Council on Microbial Science, a member of the College of American Pathologist Microbiology Committee and the Vice Chair of the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG) Diagnostic Committee. She is an Editor for the Journal of Clinical Microbiology and a Section Editor for the Manual of Clinical Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology Procedures Handbook.