Richard A. Proctor, MD (University of Michigan, 1970), is a Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Medicine and Medical Microbiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison, retired from Merck as the Global Director for Infectious Diseases for Antibiotics and Antifungals, and continues an active consulting career for industry/universities/research funding agencies; collaborating at multiple University Professors and companies; writing grants; planning experiments and evaluating data for research on staphylococcal infections and novel antibiotic combinations; and reviewing manuscripts for journals.