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Head of Clinical Operations, Microbiology and Immunology, Medical Director, Professor
ARUP/University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Dr. Couturier is the Head of Medical Operations for Infectious Disease and Immunology and medical director of the Parasitology and Fecal Testing, Infectious Disease Antigen Testing, and Emerging Public Health Crises at ARUP Laboratories. Marc is also a professor of Pathology at the University of Utah. He received his PhD in Medical Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada in 2008 and worked as a Post-doctoral fellow at the Alberta Provincial Laboratory for Public Health developing molecular diagnostic tests for enteric pathogens from 2008-2009. Dr. Couturier completed Medical Microbiology Fellowship training at the University of Utah from 2009-2011.
Dr. Couturier has an extensive research portfolio, with a focus on parasites, enteric diseases, and emerging pathogens. Specifically, Dr. Couturier has ongoing research related to improving diagnostic detection of enteric pathogens through molecular and artificial intelligence, particularly parasites of the GI tract. Dr. Couturier is an active physician educator and currently is the director of the Medical Microbiology Fellowship at the University of Utah and is a member of the College of American Pathologists Microbiology Resource Committee and ASCP Education Committee and RISE Exam Committee. He is the recipient of the 2017 Diagnostics Young Investigator award from the American Society of Microbiology (ASM).
Dr. Couturier is board certified in Medical Microbiology by the American Board of Medical Microbiology and is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, ASCP, and ACLPS.
Nucleic Acid Testing for Parasite Detection, Characterization, and Surveillance
Saturday, November 23, 2024
2:30 PM – 3:15 PM PST