Dr. Carl Boodman, MD, FRCPC, DTM&H, CTropMed is a Canadian infectious diseases physician, medical microbiologist, and PhD candidate whose research focuses on culture-negative bacterial infections as neglected diseases at the intersection of poverty, homelessness, migration, and public health. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Unit of Neglected Tropical Diseases at the Institute of Tropical Medicine / University of Antwerp and a Clinical Investigator Program candidate at the University of Manitoba. His doctoral research centers on Bartonella quintana, a louse-borne, culture-negative bacterium that disproportionately affects people experiencing homelessness. His work is supported by a fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), collaborative funding from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQ) and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), and project funding from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID). He obtained his MD from McGill University and completed residency training in Internal Medicine (University of British Columbia), and Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology (University of Manitoba), with additional training in tropical medicine.
