Dr. Lapidot is an attending physician in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel, and a senior research manager at Boston University Medical Center. The focus of Dr. Lapidot’s research includes the epidemiology of pneumococcal disease, pneumococcal conjugate vaccines impact, S. pneumoniae serotype 3, viral bacterial interactions in the respiratory tract, and the respiratory microbiome. She recently reported on the potential link between nasopharyngeal microbiome in infants and susceptibility to respiratory tract infections.