Spotlight on Testing: Metagenomics for Universal Pathogen Detection
Originally published on June 15, 2016
Lecture Presenter
Robert Schlaberg, MD, Dr Med, MPH Medical Director, Microbial Amplified Detection, Virology, and Fecal Chemistry Laboratories |
Dr. Schlaberg is an assistant professor of clinical pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He received his MD and doctor medicinæ degrees at the Julius-Maximilians-University in Wuerzburg, Germany and his master of public health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York City, where he also served as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Schlaberg trained in clinical pathology at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, where he was the chief clinical pathology resident. He is certified in clinical pathology and medical microbiology by the American Board of Pathology. His research focuses on the use of next-generation sequencing for unbiased pathogen detection and host response-based diagnostics.
Sponsored by:
University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, and ARUP Laboratories