Associate Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Dr. Konnick is an Associate Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Washington (UW), where he is an Associate Director of the Genetics and Solid Tumors Laboratory, and Director of the Genetics Preanalytical Services. Dr. Konnick earned his BS, MS, and MD degrees at the University of Utah. He was a research and development scientist at ARUP laboratories for 7 years prior to medical school where he developed, validated, and verified numerous laboratory tests for infectious disease applications, and designed and implemented multiple informatics applications & interfaces. He completed Anatomic and Clinical pathology residency, and Molecular Genetic Pathology fellowship at UW. His clinical duties involve selection of appropriate tissues for testing, coordination of biomarker testing, as well as design, implementation, and analysis of next-generation sequencing tests for germline and somatic variants related to cancer predisposition and identification of actionable findings.
Dr. Konnick has been interested in laboratory regulations since 2014, and has served on multiple committees for professional organizations. Dr. Konnick was extensively involved in Emergency Use Authorization regulatory submissions for the SARS-CoV-2 assays developed as part of the Seattle Flu Alliance, where he was an Associate Clinical Laboratory Director.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM PST