Faculty

Payal Patel, DO

Payal Patel, MD, FIDSA, MPH

Dr. Payal Patel is an Associate Professor and the systemwide medical director of Antimicrobial Stewardship at Intermountain Health in Murray, Utah. She is an infectious diseases physician and previously was medical director of antimicrobial stewardship at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and faculty at the University of Michigan. Dr. Patel completed her Bachelor of Arts in Public Health and Humanities from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She then graduated with her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Medicine in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Patel then completed her Masters in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Patel completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University Hospital and Audie Murphy Veterans Affairs Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. She then completed her fellowship in Infectious Disease at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Patel is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease by the American Board of Internal Medicine. 

Dr. Patel is a voting member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combatting Antibiotic Resistance and has expertise in infection prevention, antimicrobial resistance, and public health. She is a member of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Disease Society of America, and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. 

Dr Patel’s research interests include the implementation of antimicrobial stewardship, international efforts in antimicrobial stewardship, implementation of infection prevention, and large-scale efforts in infection prevention. She received the Antimicrobial Stewardship Scholar Award in 2021 from the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology and the Johns Hopkins Distinguished Alumni Award in 2021. She has been honored with various other awards for research and teaching. 

Dr. Patel discloses she was a consultant for Qiagen and a promotional speaker for Roche Diagnostics and Cormedix. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.