Laura Filkins, Ph.D. - Faculty Profile

Biography

Laura Filkins, PhD, D(ABMM) is the Director of Microbiology at Children's Health, Dallas, TX. After receiving a doctoral degree at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH in 2015, she completed fellowship training in Medical and Public Health Microbiology through the University of Utah and ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT in 2018. Her research and academic interests focus on the integration of emerging technologies into the clinical setting for pathogen detection and how to guide optimal utilization of these new diagnostic tests.

Education

Undergraduate School: Rochester Institute of Technology (2010)
Medical School: Darmouth College (2015)
Graduate School: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (2015)
Other Post Graduate Training: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (2016)
Fellowship: Darmouth College (2016)
Fellowship: University of UTAH/ARUP Lab (2018)

Publications

Featured Publications

A Committee-Based Diagnostic Stewardship Model for Pathogen Metagenomic Sequencing in Children.: Allen BS, Kidd M, Sue PK, Filkins LM, J Appl Lab Med 2025 Jan 10 1 59-65
Nomenclature for human and animal fungal pathogens and diseases: a proposal for standardized terminology.: de Hoog S, Walsh TJ, Ahmed SA, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Arendrup MC, Borman A, Chen S, Chowdhary A, Colgrove RC, Cornely OA, Denning DW, Dufresne PJ, Filkins L, Gangneux J-P, Gené J, Groll AH, Guillot J, Haase G, Halliday C, Hawksworth DL, Hay R, Hoenigl M, Hubka V, Jagielski T, Kandemir H, Kidd SE, Kus JV, Kwon-Chung J, Lockhart SR, Meis JF, Mendoza L, Meyer W, Nguyen MH, Song Y, Sorrell TC, Stielow JB, Vilela R, Vitale RG, Wengenack NL, White PL, Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Zhang SX, J Clin Microbiol 2024 Nov e0093724
Approaches to developing and implementing a molecular diagnostics stewardship program for infectious diseases: an ASM Laboratory Practices Subcommittee report.: Valencia-Shelton F, Anderson N, Palavecino EL, Navas ME, Larkin PMK, She R, Filkins LM, J Clin Microbiol 2024 Oct e0094124
The foundation for the microbiology laboratory's essential role in diagnostic stewardship: an ASM Laboratory Practices Subcommittee report.: Dumm RE, Marlowe EM, Patterson L, Larkin PMK, She RC, Filkins LM, J Clin Microbiol 2024 Sep e0096024
Examining Clinical Features and Severe Neurologic Disease of Parechovirus Infection in Young Infants: A Multi-State Cohort Study.: Evans AS, Singh S, Joshi C, Filkins L, Akkoyun E, Custodio H, Daniels EA, Kao CM, Richardson K, Carrillo-Marquez M, Borré CI, Oliveira CR, Espinosa C, Mandelia Y, Mazade M, Kimberlin DW, Clin Infect Dis 2024 Aug
Susceptible bacteria "can" survive antibiotic treatment in the mammalian gastrointestinal tract without evolving resistance.: Rodrigues M, Sabaeifard P, Yildiz MS, Lyon A, Coughlin L, Ahmed S, Poulides N, Toprak AC, Behrendt C, Wang X, Monogue M, Kim J, Gan S, Zhan X, Filkins L, Williams NS, Hooper LV, Koh AY, Toprak E, Cell Host Microbe 2024 Feb
A tool for stewarding the use of 16S rRNA gene amplification and sequencing in diagnostic testing.: Filkins LM, Am J Clin Pathol 2023 Jul
Staphylococcus aureus isolates from children with clinically differentiated osteomyelitis exhibit distinct transcriptomic signatures.: Hachem AA, Filkins LM, Kidane YH, Raj P, Tareen NG, Arana CA, Muthukrishnan G, Copley LA, PLoS One 2023 18 8 e0288758
Clinically undetected polyclonal heteroresistance among Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from cystic fibrosis respiratory specimens.: Maxwell DN, Kim J, Pybus CA, White L, Medford RJ, Filkins LM, Monogue ML, Rae MM, Desai D, Clark AE, Zhan X, Greenberg DE, J Antimicrob Chemother 2022 Oct
They come in threes: Marburg virus, emerging infectious diseases, and the blood supply.: Jacobs JW, Filkins L, Booth GS, Adkins BD, Transfus Apher Sci 2022 Aug 103528

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