Penulis: Gary W. Procop

Lars F. Westblade, Ph D, D(ABMM) is the Director of the Clinical Microbiology Service at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine with a primary appointment in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and a secondary appointment in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and completed a fellowship in medical and public health laboratory microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Eileen M. Burd, Ph D, D(ABMM) is the Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at Emory University Hospital and Professor at Emory University School of Medicine with a primary appointment in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and a secondary appointment in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases. She earned her doctoral degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and was the Division Head of Microbiology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan prior to joining the faculty at Emory University in 2007. Shawn R. Lockhart, Ph D, D(ABBM) FAAM is the Senior Clinical Laboratory Advisor in the Mycotic Diseases Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Kentucky and completed his clinical microbiology fellowship at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He directs the CDC training course in mold identification. Gary W. Procop, MD, MS is the CEO of the American Board of Pathology and Professor of Pathology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner School of Medicine. He remains a Consulting Staff for the Institute of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, where he served as Medical Director for the Mycology Laboratory for more than two decades. He earned his doctoral degree from the Marshall University School of Medicine. His residency in anatomic and clinical pathology was completed at Duke University and his medical microbiology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic.