Dr Kimberly E Hanson is a medical director of mycology and section chief of clinical microbiology at ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, Utah. She is also the head of immunocompromised host infectious diseases services at the University Hospital and Huntsman Cancer Center and a professor of medicine and pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr Hanson received her medical degree from Northwestern University. She served as the chief resident during her internal medicine residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Following residency, she completed an infectious diseases fellowship, master’s degree in health sciences, and medical microbiology fellowship at Duke University Medical Center. Dr Hanson is certified in medical microbiology by the American Board of Pathology and in infectious disease by the American Board of Internal Medicine. In 2005 she received the Outstanding Fellow Research Award at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Her research interests include the development and validation of novel cost-effective diagnostic tests for infectious diseases and transplant-related infectious diseases and clinical diagnostics.
Dr Scott Kopf is a nurse practitioner based in Birmingham, Alabama, and his medical specialization is Nurse Practitioner - Acute Care. He practices in Birmingham and has the professional credentials of DNP, ACNP. Dr Kopf graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Southern Mississippi College of Nursing in 2006. He then entered the Master of Science in Nursing program in the Adult Acute Care NP Specialty Track and Registered Nurse First Assist Subspecialty Course, earning his degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in 2011. He graduated from the Post-MSN to DNP pathway from University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing Doctor of Nursing Practice in 2017. Dr Kopf currently works with lung transplant patients in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care at UAB Hospital, and is an adjunct clinical instructor in the school’s Master of Science in Nursing Program, Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Specialty Track.
Dr Daniel Kelmenson is a pulmonologist in Birmingham, Alabama, and is affiliated with UAB Hospital. He graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 2011. Dr Kelmenson then completed his internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2014 and finished his combined pulmonary/critical care medicine fellowship at the University of Colorado in 2017. He currently specializes in critical care medicine and pulmonology and is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine-Pulmonology, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Alabama.
Dr Melissa D Johnson is a clinical pharmacist/associate professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases & International Health at Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), Durham, NC, and associate professor at Campbell University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Buies Creek, NC. After obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Georgia, she completed her Doctor of Pharmacy at Campbell University and a Fellowship in Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy at DUMC. She also completed a Masters of Health Science in Clinical Research at Duke University School of Medicine, concentrating on biostatistics and epidemiology. Currently, she is taking courses in the graduate school of education at North Carolina State University, to obtain a graduate certificate in e-learning.
Dr Johnson maintains a clinical practice in internal medicine/infectious diseases at DUMC and outpatient HIV care at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Her clinical research interests include invasive fungal infections in immunocompromised hosts with special focus on immunogenetics, pharmacogenetics, and pharmacodynamics.