Irving Nachamkin

Dr. Nachamkin is professor emeritus of pathology and laboratory medicine and the immediate past director of the division of laboratory medicine and associate director of the clinical microbiology laboratory at the Perelman School of Medicine and Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Dr. Nachamkin has been the principal or co-principal investigator of numerous research programs while at Penn and author or co-author of over 220 peer-reviewed papers, reviews and book chapters. He is an expert in clinical microbiology with a focus on laboratory diagnostics, molecular diagnostics in infectious diseases and laboratory management. He received his undergraduate degree in medical laboratory science from the University of Bridgeport and his MPH and DrPH from the University of North Carolina. He completed postgraduate training as a fellow in medical and public health laboratory microbiology at the Medical College of Virginia and at the Penn Medicine Clinical Leadership Academy.