Christopher Doern, PhD
Clinical Microbiology
Professor of Pathology;
Director of Clinical Microbiology
Department: Pathology
Christopher D. Doern, PhD, took his position as Director of Microbiology in December of 2013, after serving for three years as the Director of Clinical Microbiology at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Doern received his PhD from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and went on to do a fellowship in Medical and Public Health Microbiology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.
Dr. Doern has been very involved in the implementation and study of new technologies in the clinical microbiology laboratory and understanding the impact of those technologies on patient care and laboratory workflow.
Dr. Doern serves on a number of Health System committees such as the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, the Hospital Infection Prevention Committee, the Pediatric Clinical Guidelines Committee, the Pediatric Sepsis Committee, and is Co-chair of the Laboratory Utilization Committee. Nationally, he serves as the founder and co-organizer of the Pediatric Microbiology Director’s Annual Meeting and Co-Chair of the American Society for Microbiology’s Clinical Microbiology Open meeting. He is also the author of the ASM Clinical Microbiology Pocket Guide book which serves as a user friendly reference for practicing clinical microbiologists.
Clinical Specialties: Clinical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases
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Education
Postdoctoral Education
Medical and Public Health Microbiology Fellowship
Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Graduate Education
PhD, Microbiology and Immunology
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
Undergraduate Education
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Certification
2010 – present American Board of Medical Microbiology
Hospital Appointments
2018 – present Director of Clinical Microbiology, VCU Health System, Richmond, VA
2016 – 2018 Consultant Director of Clinical Microbiology , Veterans Administration Hospital, Richmond, VA
2013 – 2017 Associate Director of Clinical Microbiology, VCU Medical Center, Richmond, VA
2010 – 2013 Director of Clinical Microbiology, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas, TX
Academic Appointment History
2024 – present Professor of Pathology, VCU School of Medicine, Richmond, VA
2024 – present Affiliate appointment as Professor of Internal Medicine, VCU School of Medicine, Richmond, VA
2018 – present Affiliate appointment as Professor of Pediatrics, VCU School of Medicine, Richmond, VA
2018 – 2024 Associate Professor of Pathology, VCU School of Medicine, Richmond, VA
2013 – 2018 Assistant Professor of Pathology, VCU School of Medicine, Richmond, VA
2010 – 2013 Assistant Professor of Pathology with a joint appointment in Pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (Clinical Tenure Track)
Professional Service (current)
2019 – present Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG), Pediatric Working Group
2019 – present Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG), Diagnostics Committee
2023 – present CLSI M58 MALDI-TOF MS Working Group, Member; Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
Editorial Advisory Boards
Editor - Clinical Microbiology Newsletter
Editorial Board - Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Editorial Board – ASM Case Reports
Editorial Board – The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
Recent Invited Presentations
2024 Pro/Con Debate: Is ESBL Testing Necessary for Ceftriaxone Resistant Enterobacterales, Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) Annual Meeting (ID Week), Los Angeles, CA
2024 Point/Counterpoint Debate: Diagnostic stewardship and Metagenomics: Does it do more harm than good?, Next Generation Dx Summit. Washington, DC
2024 What’s Meaningful in Diabetic Wounds: Cases and Discussion with an ID physician, Microbe – ASM Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
2023 Introduction to Diagnostic Stewardship, Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Toronto, Canada
2023 Overcoming a Pathologic Fear of Public Speaking, Association of Public Health Laboratories ID Lab Con. Atlanta, GA
2023 Diagnostic Stewardship: Putting the cat back in the bag without killing it., Weill-Cornell School of Medicine Pathology Grand Rounds, New York City, NY
2022 Introduction to Diagnostic Stewardship, ASM Webinar Series on Diagnostic Stewardship
2022 Controversial Topics In Clinical Microbiology, New York City ASM Annual Meeting, New York City, NY
Recent Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Powell EA, Greninger AL, Marlowe EM, Naccache SN, Doern CD. Proceedings of the Clin Micro Open 2023: Discussions about Pandemic Preparedness (part 2). J Clin Microbiology. 2024. 62(6).
Peaper DR, Doern CD, Sharp S; ASM Clinical and Public Health Microbiology Committee and the ASM Corporate Council. Proceedings of the Clinical Microbiology Open 2022-assessing clinical laboratory and industry responses to COVID-19 pandemic testing capacity challenges (part 1). 2024. J Clin Microbiology. 62(3).
Doern CD, Kidd C. Taking Center Stage: Clinical Laboratory leading diagnostic stewardship efforts. 2024. Clinics and Lab Medicine. 44(1).
Ellis LP, Hess O, Huynh K, Bearman G, Kang L, Doern CD. A comparison of severity of illness between the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant and Delta variant. 2023. ASHE. 3(1).
Simner PJ, Bard JD, Doern C, Johnson JK, Westblade L, Yenokyan G, Patel R, Hanson KE; ARLG. REPORTing of Antimicrobial Resistance from Blood Cultures (REPORT-ABC), an ARLG Survey Summary: Resistance Marker Reporting Practices from Positive Blood Cultures. 2022. Clin Infect Dis. Online ahead of print.
Doern CD, Miller MB, Alby K, Bachman MA, Brecher SM, Casiano-Colon A, Couturier MR, Johnson JK, Kirby JE, McElvania E, Newton DW, Nolte FS, Pancholi P, McNult P, Dharmarha V, Dunbar S: ASM Clinical and Public Health Microbiology Committee and the ASM Corporate Council. Proceedings of the Clinical Microbiology Open 2018 and 2019 - a Discussion about Emerging Trends, Challenges, and the Future of Clinical Microbiology. 2022. 60(7).
Point-Counter Point – Should clinical microbiology laboratories report vancomycin MICs? 2021. Revolinski S, Doern CD. J Clin Microbiology. Mar 19. 59(4).M Microbe Meeting. Atlanta, GA, 2018.
Books, Book Chapters & Monographs
Doern CD, Bryson AL. 2022. Wound/Abscess and Soft Tissue Cultures. Clinical Microbiology Procedures Handbook, 4th edition. ASM Press. Guidance Document
Doern CD, Humphries RM, Van Belkum A. 2022. Synergy Testing: Broth Microdiliution and Broth Macrodilution Checkerboard Methods. Clinical Microbiology Procedures Handbook, 4th edition. ASM Press. Guidance Document
Doern CD. Classification of Medically Important Bacteria. 2023. Molecular Medical Microbiology. Elsevier – Textbook chapter
Doern CD. 2018. The Pocket Guide to Clinical Microbiology: 4th Edition. ASM Press. - Textbook
Doern CD Revell P. 2017. The Dark Art of the Blood Culture Textbook: Chapter: Pediatric Blood Cultures. ASM Press. – Textbook chapter
Doern CD and Forbes BA. 2016. Fundamentals of Bacteriology. Tietz Textbook of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, 6th edition. Chapter 74. Textbook chapter
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