Thomas Kirn, MD, PhD
Professor
Bio
Thomas Kirn is a professor at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from Dartmouth College, and his MD from Dartmouth Medical School. He completed two postgraduate residencies at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, one in clinical pathology, and his postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Artis Lab, Department of Pathobiology.
His areas of interest include evaluating the impact of infectious disease diagnostics on clinical outcomes (especially as related to bloodstream infection), laboratory stewardship, point-of-care infectious disease diagnostics, and molecular mechanisms of microbial pathogenesis and antibiotic resistance. Dr. Kirn is currently researching the identification of S. aureus in positive blood cultures and the elucidation of molecular mechanisms that contribute to C. difficile pathogenesis.
Hospital Affiliation
- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital- New Brunswick, NJ
Licensure
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State of New Jersey
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