Host Response Testing for Acute Infection: Clinical Need and Laboratory Implementation

 

 

Edana Mann is the senior associate clinical director of The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s emergency department and an assistant professor of emergency medicine. 

Mann received her medical degree in 1997 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed her emergency medicine residency training at the Carolinas Medical Center. In 2000, Mann brought her talents to St. Agnes Healthcare in Baltimore as an emergency physician, and in 2002 she became the clinical director of the emergency department chest pain center — the only accredited chest pain center in Maryland at the time. In 2006, Mann began working in the emergency department at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, where she took on the role of director of clinical education in 2010. She was named associate chairman of the Franklin Square Department of Emergency Medicine in 2011. Mann is currently a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Melissa Naiman is a Senior Medical & Scientific Affairs Director for Beckman Coulter Diagnostics. She trained in chemistry and has a Ph.D. in Public Health with a research interest in technology adoption in healthcare settings. She spent her early career in an academic research center at the University of Illinois that developed medical devices and diagnostics, including identifying novel biomarkers for military health applications. Today she focuses on accelerating innovation in host-response-based diagnostic strategies targeting acute infection and sepsis management.