Samuel J Mitchell MD PhD

Summary

• Sam is a Family Medicine physician in Bozeman, MT.
  
  He earned his BA in Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology from CU Boulder in 1988, then worked as a faculty research assistant in several university laboratories (CU, UW, UMCP) until 1993. After earning his PhD in a combined Microbiology & Biochemistry program at the University of Montana, Missoula in 1996, he completed his MD at the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM) in 2000. He was a Family Medicine resident at the UWSOM Roosevelt Clinic, completing training in June 2003. From 2003-2005 he was a CDC EIS officer stationed at the San Francisco Department of Public Health and abroad at BOTUSA, Botswana. He then practiced full-spectrum Family Medicine in Missoula MT from 2005-2010 and was a PI/SubI on many clinical research projects at Montana Medical Research. Since 2010, he has been a primary care physician at MSU Bozeman Student Health, including serving as Medical Director from 2016-23 until COVID wore him out.
  
  Dr. Mitchell has multiple publications, initially focused on scientific research of Bartonella bacilliformis, followed by work on diseases and conditions affecting the HIV-infected populace and individuals within the commercial sex industry.
  
  Peer-reviewed publications (NEJM, MMWR, JAMA, CID, I&I) include topics such as Methamphetamine use in HIV-infected patients, Azithromycin-resistant syphilis infection, Macrolide resistance in Treponema pallidum, and virulence factors of B. bacilliformis.