Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Director/Associate Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine
Lars Westblade is an Associate Professor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell Medicine, and the Director of Clinical Microbiology Services at NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center. Lars did his undergraduate and postgraduate training in biochemistry at the University of Birmingham, UK; followed by postgraduate studies in molecular biophysics at The Rockefeller University, US. He completed a CPEP-approved fellowship in Medical and Public Health Laboratory Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, US. He has a special interest in antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, diagnostics, infections of the immunossuppressed host, and mycology.