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Director, Clinical Microbiology and Virology; Professor of Pathology (Clinical Scholar)
Children's Hospital Los Angeles; University of Southern California
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dr. Jennifer Dien Bard is a Professor of Pathology with Clinical Scholar designation in the Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. She is the Director of the Clinical Microbiology and Virology Laboratories, Director of Operations in Laboratory Medicine and the Chief of Academic and Research Development in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Microbiology and an Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Fellow. Dr. Dien Bard serves on several committees and working groups for organizations including the National Academy of Science (NAS), the IDSA, the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and the Antimicrobial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG). Dr. Dien Bard is an Editor of Clinical Microbiology Reviews journal, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Virology and serves on the Editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Dr. Dien Bard has published over 100 scientific papers and is a frequent speaker in the areas of rapid molecular diagnostics for the identification of infectious diseases pathogens. Her clinical research studies explore the application and effects of laboratory diagnostic, particularly molecular diagnostics and antimicrobial susceptibility testing, on patient diagnosis, antimicrobial utilization and overall clinical outcome.