Assistant Director, Microbiology
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Deisy Contreras is the Assistant Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Deisy received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Science and Translational Medicine from Cedars-Sinai and was a Postdoctoral Clinical Microbiology CPEP-Fellow at UCLA and became board certified by the American Board of Medical Microbiology (ABMM) in 2019. She joined the clinical team at Cedars in 2020 where she has been in integral part of implementing numerous molecular diagnostic assays for clinical virology and the Special Pathogens Team. She has a passion for seeking out new applications of Next generation sequencing in infectious disease as it pertains to emerging pathogen identification.