Lars Westblade, PhD, D(ABMM), is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Associate Director of Clinical Microbiology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center. He received his undergraduate and postgraduate training in biochemistry at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; followed by postgraduate studies in molecular biophysics and mass spectrometry at The Rockefeller University in New York. He completed a CPEP-approved fellowship in medical and public health laboratory microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and has a special interest in mass spectrometry and its application in clinical microbiology.