Brittany A. Young, MD, PhD

Medical Director: Client Services and Point-of-Care Testing
Assistant Professor (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Education

• Doctorate Degree—Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
• Medical Degree—Saint Louis University School of Medicine
• Residency—Clinical Pathology, Chief Resident, University of Utah School of Medicine
• Fellowship—Medical Microbiology, University of Utah School of Medicine

Previous Roles

• ARUP Laboratory Director, Huntsman Mental Health Institute
• Acting Assistant Medical Director, Automated Endocrinology, ARUP Laboratories

Certification/Affiliations

• American Board of Pathology (Clinical Pathology, Medical Microbiology)

Research Interests

• Quality management

Recent Publications

• Pandya V, et al. Deceptively simple: can urine samples from CLIA-waived urine drug screen devices be reused for confirmatory testing? J Appl Lab Med. 2022; jfac094.
• Pandya V, et al. Spirited away: can ethanol testing in add-on orders provide meaningful results? Clin Biochem. 2022;S0009-9120(22)00238-7.
• Young BA, et al. Molecular diagnostic advances in transplant infectious diseases. Curr Infect Dis Rep. 2019;21(12):52.
• Shen W, et al. Prenatal detection of uniparental disomy of chromosome 2 carrying a CHRND pathogenic variant that causes lethal multiple pterygium syndrome. Clin Genet. 2018;93(6):1248–9.
• Boylan KE, et al. Pulmonary mycobacterial spindle cell pseudotumor: a report of 3 cases including a practical approach to histopathologic recognition of this unusual entity. Int J Surg Pathol. 2018;26(7):629–34.