Aidan Dmitriev, MD

At the University of Kanas, Dr. Dmitriev developed a passion for research in the lab of Dr. Scott Hefty as a nationally selected Beckman Scholar, where he studied structural proteomics in chlamydia trachomatis. During medical school, he spent a year in the lab of Dr. Anthony Richardson as part of the Physician Scientist Training Program. He studied the contribution of anaerobic metabolism to the virulence of staphylococcus aureus from an evolutionary perspective. Dr. Dmitriev developed an interest in ophthalmology during medical school with a special interest in uveitis after working with Dr. Marie-Helene Errera.