
Jennifer (Jenna) Rychert, PhD
Medical Director: Operational Informatics and Microbial Immunology
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine
Education
- Doctorate Degree—Microbiology, Immunology, Parasitology, Louisiana State Health Sciences Center
- Postdoctoral Training—HIV Immunology, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital
- Fellowship—Clinical Microbiology, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital
Certification/Affiliations
- Laboratory LOINC Committee
- American Board of Medical Microbiology
- American Society of Microbiology
- American Medical Informatics Association
Research Interests
- Clinical Informatics
- Global health
Awards
- Young Investigators Award, Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, 2007
- Global Health Travel Award, Center for Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2012 and 2014
Recent Publications
- Rychert J, et al. Evaluation of 3 SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody assays and correlation with neutralizing antibodies. J Appl Lab Med. 2021;6(3):614-24.
- Rychert J, et al. Modification of in vitro diagnostic devices: leveling the playing field. Clin Chem. 2020;66(6):760-62.
- Body BA, et al. Evaluation of the Vitek MS v3.0 matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry system for identification of mycobacterium and nocardia species. J Clin Microbiol. 2018;56(6):e00237-18.
- Wesolowski LG, et al. Acute infections, cost per infection and turnaround time in three United States hospital laboratories using fourth-generation antigen-antibody human immunodeficiency virus immunoassays. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2015;3(1):ofv188.