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SELECTBIO Conferences POC Diagnostics, Global Health-Viral Diseases 2017

Ellen Jo Baron's Biography



Ellen Jo Baron, Executive Director, Medical Affairs, Cepheid

Professor Emerita Baron was Director of the Clinical Microbiology & Virology Laboratories at Stanford University Medical Center for 15 years before joining Cepheid in 2009. She was a board-certified clinical microbiology laboratory director for >30 years, during which she authored or edited a number of textbooks and microbiology laboratory manuals. Her Basic Microbiology Flowchart system is in use in laboratories throughout the world. Dr. Baron was Bacteriology editor for the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Manual of Clinical Microbiology for 4 editions and also edited the Infectious Diseases Society of America and ASM Guideline on Infectious Diseases Diagnostic Testing, published online by IDSA and as a Sanford Guide app. She has written or edited >30 books and chapters and >100 journal articles about infectious diseases diagnostics. She received two Stanford teaching awards, a Stanford Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as the ASM’s bioMerieux Sonnenwirth Award for Leadership in Clinical Microbiology, the ASM’s Alice Evans Award for serving as a role model for women in microbiology, and the ASM Founders’ Award in 2012. She has been an invited speaker throughout the world at >100 conferences and symposia. She became the ASM liaison to the PanAmerican Health Organization (PAHO) in 2015. She is co-founder and Secretary of Diagnostic Microbiology Development Program, a non-governmental organization that does laboratory capacity building in the developing world, currently with major activities in Cambodia. She is currently Executive Director of Medical Affairs at Cepheid, a molecular diagnostics company.

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Feasibility of Specimen Collection by Non-Specialists, Including Patients, at the Point-of-Care

Tuesday, 3 October 2017 at 17:15

Add to Calendar ▼2017-10-03 17:15:002017-10-03 18:15:00Europe/LondonFeasibility of Specimen Collection by Non-Specialists, Including Patients, at the Point-of-CarePOC Diagnostics, Global Health-Viral Diseases 2017 in Coronado Island, CaliforniaCoronado Island, CaliforniaSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

How can specimen procurement be simplified to take advantage of the expanding number of simple platforms able to perform fast molecular tests at the point of care?  Successes in self-collected vaginal swabs for sexually-transmitted infections and HPV, reliability of fingerstick samples for HIV and HCV viral load, and other potential POC or alternative patient location collection systems will be presented.


Add to Calendar ▼2017-10-02 00:00:002017-10-04 00:00:00Europe/LondonPOC Diagnostics, Global Health-Viral Diseases 2017POC Diagnostics, Global Health-Viral Diseases 2017 in Coronado Island, CaliforniaCoronado Island, CaliforniaSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com