Dr. Shawn Clark

Biography

Shawn Clark is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. He is a clinical microbiologist at Public Health Ontario, where he oversees laboratory testing for arthropod-borne viruses and viral hemorrhagic fevers. Dr. Clark earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 2008 and his Master of Science degree in 2010 from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), followed by a PhD in 2017 from the University of Toronto. He completed postdoctoral training at the University of Toronto from 2017 to 2019 and further specialized in Clinical Microbiology at the Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology Department in 2022. In 2023, he became a Fellow of the Canadian College of Microbiologists. His research focuses on using next-generation sequencing and molecular methods to detect and characterize pathogens with public health significance, enhancing the diagnosis of infections caused by emerging infectious diseases, and studying the epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance, including the characterization of resistance mechanisms and the application of novel approaches to assess antimicrobial susceptibility.

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