Vance Fowler, MD, MHS, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Fowler is the Florence McAlister Distinguished Professor of Medicine. He has over 2 decades of continuous support as PI from the NIH for clinical and translational research in Staphylococcus aureus and other antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.

Dr. Fowler created the S. aureus Bacteremia Group, co-founded the International Collaboration on Endocarditis, and has been the Contact PI of the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group, an NIH Grant with a total value of > $160 million focused on clinical research in drug-resistant bacteria, since its inception in 2014.

He has over 300 peer-reviewed publications with > 26,000 citations.