Dr. Charles "Pat" Davis, MD, PhD, is a board certified Emergency
Medicine doctor who currently practices as a consultant and
staff member for hospitals. He has a PhD in Microbiology (UT at
Austin), and the MD (Univ. Texas Medical Branch, Galveston). He
is a Clinical Professor (retired) in the Division of Emergency
Medicine, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, and has been
the Chief of Emergency Medicine at UT Medical Branch and at
UTHSCSA with over 250 publications. Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD,
is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty
training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology.
Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest
Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the
University of North Carolina. She completed residency training
in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by
subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and
experimental pathology. Salmonella are a group of closely
related rod-shaped,