From Testing to Trends: Strengthening Infection and AMR Surveillance
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Summary
Join Medical Laboratory Observer for a supplemental discussion on our State of the Industry Survey on Disease Management published in the August 2026 magazine. Stephanie Mitchell, PhD, Senior Director of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Beckman Coulter will join MLO’s editor in chief in a discussion on general disease management with a deeper dive into sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance. The discussion will highlight the following:
- Importance of STI and AMR surveillance programs
- Returning to guideline-based testing
- Expanding diagnostic coverage for colonization and active infection
- Role of Beckman Coulter Immunoassay and Microbiology, along with complementary Danaher diagnostic platforms
Speaker
Dr. Stephanie Mitchell
Senior Director of Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medical and Scientific Affairs
Beckman Coulter Microbiology
Dr. Stephanie Mitchell is Senior Director of
Infectious Disease and Microbiology, Medical and Scientific Affairs at Beckman Coulter Microbiology. She is a board-certified clinical microbiologist (ABMM) and trained at Tufts University (PhD) and the University of Pennsylvania (CPEP).
Prior to joining Beckman Coulter, Dr. Mitchell served in
Medical and Scientific Affairs at Cepheid and previously served as Medical Director of clinical microbiology laboratories at a large academic healthcare institution. She is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor at School of Medicine at University of Pittsburgh and is active in ASM and CLSI committees.
