Aidan Dmitriev, MD, was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and grew up in the Chautauqua Lake area in Western New York. He later moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where he completed his secondary education and stayed to earn a BS in Microbiology with highest honors at the University of Kansas. During his time as a Jayhawk, he developed a passion for research in the lab of Dr. Scott Hefty as a nationally selected Beckman Scholar, where he studied structural proteomics in Chlamydia trachomatis. Aidan went on to earn a medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he also spent a year in the lab of Dr. Anthony Richardson as part of the Physician Scientist Training Program. During his research year through this program, Aidan studied the contribution of anaerobic metabolism to the virulence of Staphylococcus aureus from an evolutionary perspective. Dr. Dmitriev developed an interest in Ophthalmology during medical school with a special interest in uveitis after working with Dr. Marie-Helene Errera, and he is excited to continue his residency training at UPMC. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, sailing, cooking, and playing tennis and violin.