Associate Laboratory Director
University of Washington
Neisseria Reference Laboratory, Center for AIDS and STD, Departments of Global Health and Medicine
Harborview Medical Center
325 9th Ave. Box 359931
Seattle,
WA
USA
98104
sogeo@u.washington.edu
Biographical Sketch:
2011 - present -- Associate Laboratory Director, Neisseria Reference Laboratory, Center for AIDS and STD, Departments of Global Health and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2011 - present -- Seattle Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP) Reference Laboratory Coordinator and Project Director
2004 - present -- Active participant on GISP
2007 - 2010 -- Post-doctoral Fellow -- Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Neisseria Reference Laboratory, Center for AIDS and STD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2003 - 2007 -- Visiting Scientist and Research Scholar -- Pathobiology, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Neisseria Reference Laboratory, Center for AIDS and STD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Extensive background and technical expertise in surveillance of antimicrobial resistance, microbial genetics and characterization of mechanisms of antibiotic resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and other clinically important pathogenic bacteria
24 peer-reviewed research papers and 29 conference abstracts on antimicrobial susceptibility testing and genetics of antimicrobial resistance in N. gonorrhoeae and other clinically important bacteria