Barbara Irene Kazmierczak PhD, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis; Associate Director for Basic Research, MD-PhD Program, Yale University

Biographical Info

Dr. Kazmierczak received her Ph.D. from Rockefeller University (1993) and her M.D. from Cornell University Medical College (1994), both in New York City. She completed an Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases fellowship training at the University of California, San Francisco. She began research on the opportunistic bacterial pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, while a postdoctoral scientist at UCSF.

Dr. Kazmierczak joined the faculty at Yale School of Medicine in 2001. She currently holds appointments in both Internal Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Microbial Pathogenesis. She sees hospitalized patients as an attending physician on the Infectious Diseases consult service. Her laboratory studies the bacterial and host factors that enable environmental bacteria, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus, to cause opportunistic infections.

International Activity

• Innate immune responses to bacterial infection
  Berlin, Germany (2010 - 2010)
  Visiting Researcher

Education & Training

B.A.

University of Chicago (1986)

M.S.

University of Chicago (1986)

Ph.D.

Rockefeller University (1993)

M.D.

Cornell University Medical College (1994)

Intern

University of California, San Francisco, Internal Medicine (1994 - 1995)

Resident

University of California, San Francisco, Internal Medicine (1995 - 1996)

Fellow

University of California, San Francisco, Infectious Diseases (1996 - 1999)

Assistant Adjunct Professor

University of California, San Francisco, Internal Medicine (1999 - 2001)

Board Certification

Infectious Disease, Board Certified  (1999)

Honors & Recognition

• Fellow, IDSA
  Infectious Diseases Society of America (2008)
• Investigator Award
  Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation (2003)
• Visiting Faculty Research Grant
  Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) (2010)
• Investigator in Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases
  Burroughs Wellcome Fund (2007)
• Elected Member
  Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America (2009)

Professional Service

• Member, IDSA (12/01/2009 - 11/30/2012)