Titles
Program Director, Medical and Public Health Microbiology Fellowship
Medical Director of Bacteriology, Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing, and Molecular Syndromic Infectious Disease Diagnostics, Barnes Jewish Hospital
Education
University of Delaware, BS
Duke University, PhD
University of Pennsylvania-Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, CPEP Fellowship
Research Interests
My research focuses on diagnostic testing in the clinical microbiology laboratory, by establishing clinical utility to better navigate appropriate selection of new and complex diagnostics. Broadly, I am interested in advanced molecular technologies, rapid identification of multi-drug resistant organisms and efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance and using laboratory automation to improve both analytical performance and workflow efficiency.
Selected Publications
The oral penems and carbapenems
Publication
Comparison of VITEK REVEAL fast antimicrobial susceptibility testing to antibiotic disk diffusion for gram-negative bloodstream infections
Publication
Clinical and implementation outcomes of an antimicrobial stewardship intervention for rapid blood culture diagnostics
Publication
Performance evaluation of a commercial multiplex pathogen panel for detection of bacteria in sputum specimens from non-ICU patients with suspected lower respiratory tract infection
Publication
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