Romney M. Humphries

Biography

  Section Chief of Clinical Microbiology at the UCLA Health System and an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Bacterial Pathogenesis studying the bacterial pathogenesis at the University of Calgary, Canada. She completed a clinical postdoctoral fellowship in Medical and Public Health Laboratory Microbiology at UCLA. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Microbiology and a licensed Clinical Microbiologist. Her research interests are in antimicrobial susceptibility testing and resistance mechanisms, Clostridium difficile infection, diagnostics and pathogenesis, and in the development of rapid molecular tests for the detection, quantification, and characterization of microorganisms in clinical specimens for the diagnosis of infectious diseases.

Research Interest

 research on clinical microbiology