Leadership Team

Katherine Perez, PharmD
Senior Director, Infectious Disease Surveillance & RWE Lead
Pfizer

Katherine Perez is a pharmacist and infectious diseases expert who leads the antimicrobial surveillance efforts at Pfizer. She oversees the Antimicrobial Testing Leadership And Surveillance (ATLAS) program and dissemination of data on emerging AMR trends globally.

Dr. Perez developed and co-directed the antimicrobial stewardship program at Houston Methodist Hospital System and then joined Biomerieux as a Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship where she worked with clinical laboratories to integrate diagnostics into antimicrobial stewardship initiatives. Now, in her role at Pfizer, she is responsible for leading AMR surveillance and integrating the impact of vaccines with real-world evidence generation.

Katherine holds a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas and completed her postgraduate training in infectious diseases pharmacy at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas and Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas and pharmacoepidemiology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Dr. Perez is board certified in pharmacotherapy and infectious diseases pharmacy. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on topics such as antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial and diagnostic stewardship, and vaccine-preventable infections.