As the Vice President of Medical Affairs for North America, Kalvin Yu, MD, FIDSA, is responsible for providing medical and scientific leadership and operationally viable BD Solutions with clinicians and healthcare systems across the United States. Before BD, Dr. Yu was the Chief Integration Officer and Chief of Infectious Diseases at Southern California Kaiser Permanente, where he implemented multidisciplinary quality and patient safety programs among different hospitals and service lines. Dr. Yu trained at the UCLA School of Medicine and was a former Associate Professor of Infectious Disease and Global Public Health at NYU. Published research areas include patient outcomes, readmissions, and quality metric benchmarking. He was a member of the CDC Antibiotic Utilization workgroup, and has been an invited speaker at IDSA, SHEA, Pew Trusts, and Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. Dr. Yu was nominated and inducted as a Fellow in the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2020.