Dr. Hanson is the assistant medical director of the Mycology, Mycobacteriology, and Virology laboratories at ARUP and an assistant professor of medicine and pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She earned her MD from Northwestern University Medical School and her master of health science at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Hanson completed her clinical training in medicine at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and her infectious diseases and medical microbiology fellowships at Duke University. Prior to joining ARUP, Dr. Hanson worked as an associate in pathology and medicine at Duke University Medical Center and was an associate director of the Duke Molecular Microbiology Laboratory. Her clinical and research interests focus on the diagnosis and management of infectious complications following transplantation. She is board certified in infectious disease, medical microbiology, and general internal medicine.