Heather Nelson, PhD, DABCC

Assistant Professor (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Education

• Doctorate Degree—Cell and Developmental Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University
• Fellowship—Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Fellowship—Clinical Chemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine

Certification/Affiliations

• American Board of Clinical Chemistry
• American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Research Interests

• Endocrinology
• Diabetes
• Lipids
• Laboratory best practices

Awards

• 2022 AACC Annual Scientific Meeting—Student Oral Presentation: First Place
• 2022 AACC SYCL Travel Grant
• 2021 AACC Annual Scientific Meeting—Student Research Poster Award: Honorable mention
• 2021 ACLPS Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Award

Recent Publications

• Kushnir MM, et al. Clinical utility and analytical aspects of direct measurements of free hormones using mass spectrometry based methods. J Appl Lab Med. 2022;7(4):945–70.
• Wyness SP, et al. Clinical and analytical characterization of the DiaSorin and ScheBo fecal pancreatic elastase-1 assays. Pancreas. 2022;51(3):243–49.
• Nelson HA, et al. Mitigation of biotin interference in manual and automated immunoassays by pre-conjugating biotinylated antibodies to the streptavidin surface as an alternative to biotin depletion. J Appl Lab Med. 2022;7(3):762–75.