Barbara Wells Trautner MD, PhD

Barbara W. Trautner, M.D., Ph.D., is an infectious diseases clinician-investigator at Baylor College of Medicine and the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, affiliated with the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt). While on career development award support, Dr. Trautner obtained a PhD in clinical investigation from Baylor College of Medicine Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Trautner has two productive branches of investigation, one in health services research and one in microbiology translational research, both linked by a unifying focus on urinary tract infection (UTI).

Dr. Trautner’s frustration with seeing her patients’ bladder flora become more resistant after courses of unnecessary antibiotics led to her current research projects: (1) novel strategies for prevention and management of UTI, including bacteriophage, and (2) implementation of antibiotic stewardship guidelines, particularly for UTI. In addition to her research, Dr. Trautner is an educator, mentor, and academic program administrator. She is currently the Director of Research Administration in the Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, and she is a co-Program Director of the NHLBI T32 Training Program in Cardiovascular Surgery.