Instructor in Medicine. Dr. Alexander received her M.D. from Weill Cornell Medical College where she was a B.H. Kean Fellow in International Medicine. She completed her residency training in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai Hospital and her infectious disease training at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she trained in the laboratory of Dr. Kyu Rhee. Dr. Alexander continues to work extensively with Dr. Rhee in the Division of Infectious Diseases. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying increasing antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. Specifically, the use of the mass-spectrometry based technique of metabolomics to investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying increasing vancomycin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. Dr. Alexander is the recipient of an NIH/Weill Cornell Medical College Clinical and Translational Science Center KL2 Award.
