David Patrick
Professor and Medical Epidemiology Lead for AMR, UBC School of Population and Public Health; BCCDC
Dr. Patrick is a respected public health leader, researcher and educator with expertise in epidemiology and infectious diseases. He joined the BCCDC in 1991, working on clinical and epidemiological approaches to sexually transmitted infections and HIV throughout the 1990s, and assuming leadership of the BCCDC’s epidemiology division in the 2000s. From 2011 to 2016, he was director of the UBC School of Population & Public Health, for which he was recognized for distinguished service. He serves as the Director of Research for BCCDC since 2020. Dr. Patrick has developed his own graduate course, Control of Communicable Diseases, and has contributed to many others, including courses in medicine, dentistry and public health. He was responsible for the birth of the only tropical medicine course in western Canada. His work focuses on responding to emerging infectious diseases and instituted Canada’s first provincial Community Antibiotic Stewardship program in BC in 2005. He has documented impact of stewardship efforts on antimicrobial use, including a fascinating link between antibiotic use in infancy and atopic disease.
