David A. Haake

Dr. David Haake is Chief Medical Officer. David is an experienced clinician scientist in the fields of infectious diseases, bacterial pathogenesis, vaccine development, and in vitro diagnostics with a number of patents and patent applications and ~130 publications in the scientific literature. He has a strong track record of successful research grant applications from government agencies including over 25 years of continuous support for his research from the National Institutes of Health. He has special expertise in technology development in the areas of identification of microbial pathogens in clinical specimens and rapid antimicrobial resistance testing and is the former Chief Scientific Officer at MicrobeDx, a technology startup developing rapid diagnostics for urinary tract infection. After studying Chemistry at Harvard and receiving an M.D. from New York University, David went on to UCLA for training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

David is Professor in Residence in the Departments of Medicine, Urology, and Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics at UCLA and remains an active physician at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.