Michael Rubin, MD
Michael Rubin graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. degree in 1989. He then went on to complete his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Illinois at Chicago as part of the combined M.D./Ph.D. program, finishing both in 1997 with a Ph.D. in cellular immunology. Following this, he completed both his residency in internal medicine (in 2000) and his fellowship in infectious diseases (in 2003) at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where he then joined the faculty in the Divisions of Clinical Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. He is currently on the Tenure Track as an Assistant Professor of Medicine.
He is interested primarily in bedside-to-community translational research encompassing the domains of medical informatics, decision-support systems, and simulation modeling, particularly as these relate to infectious diseases and infection control surveillance. Topics of his research include: decision-support tools for antibiotic prescribing in the rural long-term-care setting; electronic detection of urinary catheters in hospitalized patients to reduce urinary tract infections; and simulation of nosocomial catheter-related bloodstream infections to evaluate different surveillance methods.
