Microbiology

Faculty

Brad T. Cookson, MD, PhD

Professor | Division Head, Clinical Microbiology | Director, Molecular and Next-Gen Microbiology Lab

Drew Bell, PhD

Drew Bell, PhD

Assistant Professor

Lori A. Bourassa, PhD, MPH, D(ABMM)

Associate Professor | Assistant Director, Clinical Microbiology | Director, Clinical Microbiology Fellowship

Alex L. Greninger, MD, PhD, MS, MPhil

Professor | Larry Corey Endowed Professorship in Virology

Noah G. Hoffman, MD, PhD

Associate Professor | Head, Informatics Division | Co-Director, NGS Analytics Laboratory | Specialty CMIO for Lab and Pathology services for UW Medicine

Keith Jerome, MD, PhD

Professor | Head, Virology Division, University of Washington | Director, UW Molecular Virology Laboratory | Director, UW Virology Laboratory | Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutch | Larry Corey Endowed Professorship in Virology

Stephen J. Libby, PhD

Research Associate Professor Emeritus

Joshua A. Lieberman, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor | Assistant Director, Molecular Diagnosis, Microbiology Section

Sean C. Murphy, MD, PhD

Professor | Assistant Director of Clinical Microbiology

Melanie J. Shears, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

Karen G. Stephens, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Gianna Tansarli, MD, PhD

Gianna Tansarli, MD, PhD

Acting Instructor

Tristan X. Jordan, PhD

Assistant Professor

The clinical microbiology division has laboratories located at the University of Washington Medical Center - Montlake and Harborview Medical Center. The division provides a wide range of diagnostics services in bacteriology, parasitology, mycology, mycobacteriology and molecular diagnosis. The division employs over 70 full and part time medical laboratory scientists, technicians, administrative support staff and faculty.

Education

The Clinical Microbiology Division participates in training programs for undergraduate medical laboratory science students, Laboratory Medicine Master of Science students, medical students, clinical pathology residents and infectious diseases fellows. In addition, the division administers a CPEP-accredited postdoctoral training program in medical and public health laboratory microbiology. Please see the Education section for more information on these programs.

Research

The clinical microbiology division supports numerous lines of research. For more information, see entries for individual faculty.

Susceptibility Testing and Antibiograms

The clinical microbiology division creates and provides annual antibiograms for Harborview and University of Washington Medical Center - Montlake, which can be found by visiting the Antibiograms and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Information guideline.

Contacts

University of Washington Clinical Microbiology Lab

Room NW177
Tel: 206.598.6147
Hours: 24 hours daily
For clinical consultations, page our Microbiology Fellow on-call at 206.598.6190.

Harborview Medical Center Clinical Microbiology Lab

Room GWH 47
Tel: 206.744.5858
Hours: 6am-11:30pm daily
After Hours: Samples accepted at Specimen Processing Services

USPS and Courier

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
1959 NE Pacific Street, Room NW120
Seattle, WA 98195-7110
Tel: 206.598.6131
Fax: 206.598.6189
M-F 8am-5pm

Supervisory Staff

UW Medical Center - Montlake Microbiology Lab 206.598.6147

Sarah Jensen, Health Sciences Manager
Elizabeth Bauerle, Lead
Lynda Bui, Lead
Michael Majors, Lead
Carolyn Mallahan, Lead
Meghan Sedita, Lead
Erez Theriault, Lead

Harborview Microbiology Lab 206.744.5858

Simine Asgarinia, Health Sciences Manager
Victoria Bothwell, Lead
Angelica Ludwig, Lead

Jason Matsumoto, Lead