Antibiotic resistance constitutes a global health crisis, which threatens to reverse many advances in the field of medicine. The central goal of my laboratory is to develop therapeutics with novel antimicrobial mechanisms to overcome bacterial resistance to traditional antibiotics. EDUCATION 1993, City College of the University of New York, BS, Anthropology and Biochemistry 1996, City College of the University of New York, MA, Biochemistry 2006, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PhD, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics 2008, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, MD, Medicine