Rebekah Dumm, PhD

Division

• Laboratory & Genomic Medicine

Additional Titles

• Associate Medical Director of the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Microbiology Laboratory
• Associate Medical Director of the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Molecular Infectious Disease Laboratory
• Associate Director,  Microbiology Fellowship

Education

• University of Delaware, BS
• Duke University, PhD
• University of Pennsylvania-Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, CPEP Fellowship

Clinical Interests

Clinical microbiology; Diagnostic assay utilization; Laboratory automation; Antimicrobial resistance

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

Mannathoko N., et al. Colonization with Extended-Spectrum Cephalosporin-Resistant Enterobacterales (ESCrE) and Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) in Healthcare and Community Settings in Botswana: An Antibiotic Resistance in Communities and Hospitals (ARCH) Study. International Journal of Infectious Diseases (2022). https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(22)00337-X/fulltext

Mills M.G., et al. An international, interlaboratory ring trial confirms the feasibility of an open-source, extraction-less “direct” RT-qPCR method for reliable detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in clinical samples. Plos One (2022). https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261853

Dumm R., Wing A. Richterman., Jacob J., Glaser L., Rodino K. Closing the Brief Case: A Variant on a Classic–Abiotrophia defectiva endocarditis with discitis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology (2021). https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/JCM.03094-20

Dumm R., Wing A. Richterman., Jacob J., Glaser L., Rodino K. The Brief Case: A Variant on a Classic–Abiotrophia defectiva endocarditis with discitis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology (2021). https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.03093-20

Dumm R., Elkan M., Fink. J., Richard-Greenblatt M., Obstfeld A., Harris R. Implementation of an extraction-free COVID RT-PCR workflow in a pediatric hospital setting. Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine (2021). https://academic.oup.com/jalm/article-abstract/6/6/1441/6308945?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

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Assistant
Shelley Cuervo
314-362-2207
cuervo@wustl.edu
IOH Room 5800