Norman L. Beatty is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida, USA. He also serves as the Biomedical Officer at the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida. He acquired his medical degree (M.D.) from Ross University School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency and fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Tucson. Dr. Beatty is a physician-scientist who has been studying triatomines and Chagas disease in humans and other mammals since 2015. He is currently researching Chagas disease in Florida as well as throughout the United States and Colombia.