Associate Professor
University of California San Diego/Sharp Healthcare
Dr. George Sakoulas is an active infectious disease clinician in the Sharp Healthcare
System, San Diego, CA, and an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Division of Host-ˇ
Microbe Systems and Therapeutics, Center for Immunity, Infection and Inflammation at
the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Sakoulas is also an
investigator in the UCSD Health Sciences interdisciplinary research and educational
initiative called the “Collaborative to Halt Antibiotic-ˇResistant Microbes” or CHARM. As a
CHARM investigator, Dr. Sakoulas is involved in creative ‘outside the box’ research that
can provide innovative diagnostic and therapeutic solutions to the burgeoning antibiotic-ˇ
resistance in the context of judicious antimicrobial stewardship. Dr. Sakoulas is the author or coauthor of more than 150 scientific publications and has written several book chapters and scientific abstracts in the areas of infectious
diseases. He lectures extensively on topics such as treatment options against complex
infections caused by methicillin-ˇresistant S aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-ˇresistant
Enterococcus spp,and other multidrug-ˇresistant pathogens. To face the medical need of COVID-19 therapeutics, Dr. Sakoulas is actively involved in the clinical stidy of COVID-19 therapeutics by repurposing drugs that are already available.
Disclosure: Octapharma (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Grant/Research Support, Scientific Research Study Investigator