Susanne Zanto, MPH, MLS, SM

Montana Public Health Laboratory
Department of Public Health and Human Services
PO Box 4369
Helena, MT
USA 59604-4369
szanto@mt.gov

Biographical Sketch:
Work Experience: 1976-1979 - Staff Technologist, Veteran's Administration Medical Center, Fort Harrison, MT 1979-1982 - Chief Medical Technologist, Veteran's Administration Medical Center, Fort Harrison, MT 1985-1987 - Staff Microbiologist, Montana Public Health Laboratory, Helena, MT 1987-1997 - Virology/Serology Lab Manager, Montana Public Health Laboratory, Helena, MT 1997 – 2006 - Technical Services Manager, Montana Public Health Laboratory, Helena, MT 2006 – 2009 - Microbiology & Molecular Lab Mgr, Montana Public Health Laboratory, Helena, MT 2009 – present - Deputy Laboratory Director, Montana Laboratory Services Bureau, Helena, MT and 2009 – present - Laboratory Systems Improvement Section Supervisor Sept 2011 – present - Acting Laboratory Director, Montana Laboratory Services Bureau, Helena, MT Pertinent Activities: 2003 - 2010 - APHL Infectious Disease Committee 2006 to present - Chair, APHL/CDC STD Steering Subcommittee Pertinent Papers/Posters/Presentations: * 1997, Co-author of Performance Characteristics of the Gen-Probe Probe Competition Assay Used as a Supplemental Test for the Gen-Probe PACE 2 and 2C Assays for Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis. * 2001, Co-author of Multisite Pooling Study Using Ligase Chain Reaction in Screening for Genital Chlamydia trachomatis Infections, * 2005, Author of Performance of Gen-Probe ASR CT and GC reagents as confirmatory tests for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae APTIMA screening – a multi-state study * 2008, Author of A Multi-State Reproducibility Study of an Amplification Assay * April 15, 2010, Author of Changing Algorithms in Syphilis Laboratory Diagnosis, Clinical Microbiology Newsletter * April 2009, Presenter of Syphilis Testing Guidelines: Boldly Going Where No One Has Gone Before, APHL Annual Meeting, Anchorage, AK * July 2010, Presenter of CDC Syphilis Testing Guidelines: A New Approach to an Old Disease, Diasorin presentation at AACC/ASCLS National meeting, Anaheim, CA * March 2011, Presenter of Sexually Transmitted Infections - Unlocking the Mystery, Montana Family Planning Male Screening Workshop * April 2011, Presenter of New Laboratory Technologies for STD/HIV/HCV Determinations, iLINK presentation at MT DPHHS, Helena, MT