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TRAINING COURSE INSTRUCTORS
Terri
Foxx-Wishert, MT(ASCP) H, SH
is currently the Laboratory Director at
Auburn Regional Medical Center. She
has over twenty-five years of experience in the clinical laboratory field.
Yolanda Houze
was a clinical microbiologist for 23 years at the University of Washington
Clinical Microbiology Laboratory before moving to the
Washington State Department of Health Public
Health Laboratories.
While at the University she was involved with training undergraduates, medical
students, residents, post-doctoral fellows and infectious disease fellows. Her
area of interest was the identification of unusual and difficult to identify
organisms which led her to be the reference bacteriologist for the University
and for other area hospitals and laboratories. While at the University she
developed the bio-terrorism response plan for that laboratory and is now the
Bioterrorism Response Coordinator and Supervisor in the Microbiology Division at the Washington State
Public Health Laboratories. Contact Yolanda via her Email
address:
Yolanda.Houze@doh.wa.gov
Rebecca
Howell, MT(ASCP)
is currently employed by Group Health Cooperative of Puget
Sound performing laboratory testing in Hematology, Coagulation and
Urinalysis. She has over twenty years of experience in the clinical
laboratory field.
Laura Kentala has over 20 years experience in
both clinical and Environmental microbiology.
She has worked in both public health and private laboratories.
Laura has a Bachelors of Arts degree in Zoology with a minor in
Microbiology from the University of Washington.
Laura has many years experience in teaching classes at the
Washington State Public
Health Laboratories in
clinical parasitology and water bacteriology. Contact Laura at Laura.kentala@doh.wa.gov
Paul Marbourg
is a member of the WA State DOH PHL's Chemistry Incident Response Unit and
also works as a Laboratory Program Advisor for the PHL's Training Department.
He holds an A.S. in Chemistry from Canada College in Redwood City, CA, and a
B.S. in Chemistry from The University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Paul
has numerous years of experience working as a bench chemist in many different
capacities and has managed several small chemical companies. Contact Paul
at Paul.marbourg@doh.wa.gov
Kathy
LaBeau, MT(ASCP) is
a laboratory surveyor and consultant for the office of Laboratory Quality
Assurance, Department of Health.
Contact
Kathy via her Email
address:
Kathy.Labeau@doh.wa.gov
Shelley
Lankford, has
a B.S. in Biology with a specialization in Microbiology and is
the Training Program Manager for the Department of Health, Public Health
Laboratories. Prior to this position she was the lead microbiologist of the food
and water laboratories for 7 years supporting foodborne illness outbreaks
and testing of water to ensure good quality drinking water and shellfish
growing waters in Washington State.
The most famous event of her career was the Jack-In-The-Box E.
coli O157:H7 outbreak in 1993. Shelley
has been with the Washington State Department of Health Public Health
Laboratories for over 17 years.
Contact
Shelley via her Email
address:
Shelley.Lankford@doh.wa.gov
Susan
Walker, MT(ASCP) is a laboratory surveyor and consultant for the office of
Laboratory Quality Assurance, Department of Health.
Contact
Susan via her Email
address:
Susan.Walker@doh.wa.gov
Questions
for instructors that do not have email addresses posted on this website
can be sent to
PHL.Training@doh.wa.gov
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