Joslyn Strebe, M.D., & Alexander Tatara, M.D., Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases Grand Rounds

"Highlights from ID Week"

Speakers:

Joslyn Strebe, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine
Associate Medical Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Alexandar Tatara, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine
Gilman Firm Leader, Perot Family Scholars Medical Scientist Training Program
UT Southwestern Medical Center

About Joslyn Strebe:

Dr. Strebe holds a bachelor's degree in neurobiology and environmental studies from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where she graduated with honors. She earned her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and completed internal medicine residency training at UT Southwestern, where she remained to obtain fellowship training in infectious diseases.

She joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2024.

Dr. Strebe specializes in antimicrobial stewardship and the management of infectious diseases, with particular expertise in multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections, Staphylococcus aureus infections, including bacteremia and endocarditis, urinary tract infections, and appropriate antimicrobial use.

Her research focuses on antimicrobial and diagnostic stewardship, health care delivery, and improving access to infectious diseases care. Her recent work has examined urine culture reflex policies as a strategy to improve diagnostic and antibiotic stewardship in the emergency department at a large safety-net hospital. She has also studied barriers to hepatitis C care and strategies to improve patients’ linkage to treatment, including among people living with HIV.

About Alexander Tatara:

Dr. Tatara holds a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in bioengineering at Rice University in Houston and his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He completed internal medicine residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital and infectious diseases fellowship training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship training at the Harvard University Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Dr. Tatara’s research interests include the design of new biomaterials, tissue engineering strategies, mechanisms of pathogen virulence, and immunoengineering to prevent and treat infection.