Michael is currently pursuing his Master of Public Health in Epidemiology at the Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University. Michael received his B.A. in History and a minor in Public Health from New York University. Before starting his MPH, Michael worked 2 years as a clinical data assistant at the Infection Prevention and Control Department at NYU Langone Health. He is interested in researching the impacts of human behavior and social environment on disease dissemination and treatment utilization.

Larissa May, MD, MSPH, MSHS, is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Emergency Department and Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship at the University of California-Davis. She is a national expert in antibiotic stewardship in the emergency department (ED). Dr. May received her M.D., her MSPH in Public Health Microbiology and Emerging Infectious Diseases, and her MSHS in Clinical and Translational Research from The George Washington University. Dr. May’s research interests center on clinical infectious disease epidemiology and management, with a particular focus on the application of rapid molecular diagnostic assays, behavioral economics and clinical guidelines to improve antibiotic stewardship in acute care ambulatory settings.

Dr. May has served as an investigator on multiple federally-funded and industry-funded trials evaluating antimicrobial stewardship strategies in the ED and urgent care setting. She has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles in her field. She has also served on numerous committees and task forces focused on antibiotic stewardship, emergency preparedness, and infectious diseases surveillance for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and professional organizations including the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

Naga Betrapally is a Senior Research Associate for ARAC where he uses Bioinformatics tools and methods to facilitate Reproducible Research in Genomic Epidemiology and Evolutionary Analysis, to identify evolutionary traits and patterns of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria in food. He previously has worked as Post-doctoral Research Scholar at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and as a Research Fellow at Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Naga obtained his PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biologyfrom George Mason University (GMU) in 2017.

Abby Onos is a research assistant at ARAC. She assists with projects that explore the relationship between the human microbiome and pathogenic disease. Abby received her Bachelor's in Biological Sciences from Smith College in Northampton, MA where she also minored in studio art. As an undergraduate, she was part of a research group that aimed to unlock the microbial tree of life by studying biodiversity of environmental microbial communities.