Research Chief Resident
Emory School of Medicine
Christina Lin, MD, PhD, is a StARR Chief Research Resident in the Internal Medicine residency program at Emory School of Medicine. She graduated from the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale School of Graduate Studies with a PhD in Microbiology in May 2020. Her PhD research focused on how a critical virulence factor, the Type III Secretion System (T3SS), is heterogeneously expressed in the opportunistic bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its effect on establishing acute infections. She completed her internal medicine residency training at Emory School of Medicine. In her StARR chief resident year, she will study the antibiotic resistance patterns of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria, as well as the epidemiology and clinical outcomes of infected patients. She also participated in the Emory Global Health Distinction and Global Health Residency Scholars Program with medical rotations in Tuba City, Arizona on the Navajo reservation and Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. After Infectious Diseases fellowship, her career goals are to understand how bacterial pathogenesis and antibiotic resistance translates into clinical outcomes from the individual to population health levels; and to alleviate infectious disease morbidity and mortality in disproportionately vulnerable patient populations.