Two Penn Medicine physicians, Ebbing Lautenbach, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Robert Austrian Professor in the department of medicine, and Ben Z. Stanger, an associate professor of medicine and associate investigator in the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, have been elected to the Association of American Physicians (AAP).

Dr. Lautenbach, also a professor in the department of biostatistics & epidemiology and a senior scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, has focused on the control of bacterial infections in healthcare and community settings. He has recently researched the role of biomarkers to inform the use of antibiotics.

Dr. Stanger and his lab study how cells acquire their specialized features and their ability to adapt to new roles when given exposure to new, different conditions. His work has focused on gastrointestinal cancer and tissue regeneration.