Dr. Bachman received his MD and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan Medical Scientist Training Program. His thesis work in the Laboratory of Michele Swanson, PhD focused on virulence gene regulation of Legionella pneumophila. He completed a Clinical Pathology Residency and Clinical Microbiology Fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He also performed postdoctoral research on the host response to Klebsiella pneumoniae iron metabolism in the laboratory of Jeffrey Weiser, MD.