Dalia Assaf

Dalia Assaf, MD, is an infectious disease physician and investigator at an academic medical center. On the inpatient consultation service, she treats patients with multidrug-resistant bacterial and fungal infections. Following clinical fellowship training in infectious diseases, Assaf established an experimental laboratory that evaluates novel antimicrobial compounds and mechanisms of pathogen resistance. Her research group investigates how emerging bacterial strains evade standard antibiotic therapies in acute care settings. She studied biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before attending medical school and continuing into university faculty practice.