Kimberly E. Hanson

Kimberly E. Hanson is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and Adjunct Professor in Pathology at the University of Utah. A board-certified physician in Adult Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, her clinical focus includes transplant and cancer chemotherapy-related infections.

• Education: MD from Northwestern University Medical School, MHS in Health Sciences from Duke University Medical Center, Fellowship in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Duke, and Chief Residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.

Research Interests center on opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts, fungal diagnostics, and SARS-CoV-2 testing methodologies. Her work emphasizes culture-independent diagnostics, antimicrobial resistance, and host immune response profiling.

Publication Trends reflect expertise in metagenomic sequencing, fungal nomenclature, and COVID-19 diagnostic strategies, with collaborations spanning IDSA, ASM, and FDLC.

Clinical and Academic Leadership includes contributions to consensus guidelines for BK polyomavirus nephropathy, invasive candidiasis, and SARS-CoV-2 genotyping, alongside multicenter studies on diagnostic standardization.