Spotlight on Testing: GI Pathogens Panel by multiplex PCR

Lecture Presenter
Marc Roger Couturier, PhD, D(ABMM)
Marc Roger Couturier, PhD, D(ABMM)
Medical Director, Parasitology/Fecal Testing, Infectious Disease Antigen Testing, Bacteriology, and Molecular Amplified Detection, ARUP Laboratories
Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine

Dr. Marc R. Couturier is a medical director at ARUP Laboratories and an associate professor of pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Couturier graduated from the University of Alberta with a doctorate degree in bacteriology. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Alberta Provincial Laboratory for Public Health and a medical microbiology fellowship at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Couturier is certified by the American Board of Medical Microbiology. He has received the Outstanding Teaching Award in Clinical Pathology, the Bill Roberts Award for Excellence in Laboratory Medicine, and the Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Young Investigators Award. His research interests include helicobacter pylori diagnostics and developing improved diagnostics for emerging agents of infectious gastroenteritis.