Payal Patel, MD, is an associate professor at Intermountain Health and the systemwide medical director of antimicrobial stewardship. She is an infectious diseases physician and is passionate about improving patient safety and antimicrobial stewardship. She serves on the Presidential Advisory Council on Combatting Antibiotic Resistance and has worked to help develop antimicrobial stewardship programs in several countries including India, Japan, and Italy.