Lisa K. Peterson, PhD, D(ABMLI)

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

Specialties

• Immunodeficiency
• Autoimmunity
• Autoimmune neurology

Education

• Doctorate Degree—Experimental Pathology, University of Utah
• Fellowship—Immunology, National Jewish Health and University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
• Fellowship—Clinical Immunology, University of Utah and ARUP Laboratories

Certification/Affiliations

• American Board of Medical Laboratory Immunology
• Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists
• Clinical Immunology Society
• American Academy of Neurology
• American Association for Clinical Chemistry
• American Society for Microbiology

Research Interests

• Immunodeficiency
• Autoimmunity
• Autoimmune neurology

Awards

• Doctorate Award, Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists, 2016
• Young Investigator Award, Colorado Immunology Conference, American
• Association of Immunologists, 2013

Recent Publications

• Ravkov EV, et al. Evaluation of mass cytometry in the clinical laboratory. Cytometry B Clin Cytom. 2019 Jul;96(4):266–74.
• Stefanski AL, et al. Murine trophoblast-derived and pregnancy-associated exosome-enriched extracellular vesicle microRNAs: implications for placenta driven effects on maternal physiology. PLoS One. 2019 Feb 7;14(2):e0210675.
• Tuttle KD, et al. TCR signal strength controls thymic differentiation of iNKT cell subsets. Nat Commun. 2018 Jul 9;9(1):2650.
• Peterson LK, et al. Antibodies to small ubiquitin-like modifier activating enzyme are associated with a diagnosis of dermatomyositis: results from an unselected cohort. Immunol Res. 2018 Jun;66(3):431–6.
• Kushnir MM, Peterson LK, Strathmann FG. Parathyroid hormone related protein concentration in human serum and CSF correlates with age. Clin Biochem. 2018 Feb;52:56–60.
• Nandiwada SL, et al. Ethnic differences in autoantibody diversity and hierarchy: more clues from a US cohort of patients with systemic sclerosis. J Rheumatol. 2016 Oct;43(10):1816–24.
• Peterson LK, et al. Detection of anti-U3-RNP/fibrillarin IgG antibodies by line immunoblot assay has comparable clinical significance to immunoprecipitation testing in systemic sclerosis. Immunol Res. 2016 Apr;64(2):483–8.