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Ellen Jo Baron
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Phone:(650) 725-3773 Profile: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Ellen_Baron/
Alternate Contact: Academic Appointments
Appointment
Organization
Professor - Med Center Line
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Honors & Awards
Title
Organization
Date(s)
Kenneth L. Vosti, M.D. Teaching Award
Stanford Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine
2003
BioMerieux Vitek Sonnenwirth Award
American Society for Microbiology
2000
Alice C. Evans Award
American Society for Microbiology
1997
Fellow
American Academy of Microbiology
1987 - present
Fellow
Infectious Diseases Society of America
1992
8 honors and awards: view full list
Administrative Appointments
Title
Organization
Start Year
End Year
Associate Chair of Pathology for Faculty Development
Department of Pathology
2006
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Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
Stanford Univ. Med. Center
1999
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Professional Education
Degree
Awarding Institution
Field of Study
Year of Graduation
B.S.
Michigan State University
Med. Micro. & Public Health
1968
M.S.
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Medical Microbiology
1978
Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Medical Microbiology
1981
Research Interests
In the Microbiology laboratory, we evaluate cutting-edge new technology for rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases, and we work with high-tech companies to help them develop new diagnostic assays at the pre-market stage. We do not perform basic research and we do not have any fellowship support. One example is a recent study in which we compared a fast (2 hour) DNA-hybridization based fluorescent stain for definitive identification of Staphylococcus aureus directly from growth in blood culture bottles to conventional and molecular amplification methods performed in our laboratory. We have also recently compared a commercial DNA typing system (rep PCR) for comparing strains of the same species for epidemiologic purposes to our own in-house developed pulsed-field gel electrophoresis method for the same purpose. Our method was just as fast, cheaper, and more accurate for the majority of organisms that we test here. Antonio Alvarez, a Stanford medical school student in the MedScholar program, and I have evaluated the ability of a common commercial instrument to accurately predict whether a new antibiotic was effective against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an antibiotic-resistant organism often recovered from our patients. Alvarez presented a poster on the Dean's lawn in May, 2004, showing that careful attention to laboratory practice is a major factor in the instrument's accurate reporting of results.
Community and International Work
- Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring, Africa, India, Malaysia, others More »
Publications
- Murray PR, Baron EJ, Jorgensen JH, Landry ML, Pfaller MA, Stratton C "Manual of clinical microbiology, 9th edition:manual of clinical microbiology, 9th edition." Clin Infect Dis 2008; 46: 1: 153-4 More »
- Bhattacharya D, Carleton H, Tsai CJ, Baron EJ, Perdreau-Remington F "Differences in Clinical and Molecular Characteristics of Skin and Soft-Tissue (SSTI) Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Isolates between Two Hospitals in Northern California." J Clin Microbiol 2007; More »
- Baron EJ, Miller JM "Bacterial and fungal infections among diagnostic laboratory workers: evaluating the risks." Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2007; More »
- Caffarelli AD, Holden JP, Baron EJ, Lemmens HJ, D'Souza H, Yau V, Olcott C, Reitz BA, Miller DC, van der Starre PJ "Plasma cefazolin levels during cardiovascular surgery: effects of cardiopulmonary bypass and profound hypothermic circulatory arrest." J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006; 131: 6: 1338-43 More »
- Baron EJ, "Implications of new technology for infectious diseases practice." Clin Infect Dis 2006; 43: 10: 1318-23 More »
70 publications: view full list
