Biography
Kimberlee Musser, Ph.D. is the Clinical Director and Chief of Bacterial Disease for the New York State Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center David Axelrod Institute. She has overseen bacterial public health reference testing, surveillance and outbreak investigations in NY for more than 25 years following a CDC/APHL Emerging Infectious Diseases postdoctoral fellowship. Her laboratory has developed and validated dozens of laboratory-developed tests including next generation sequencing assays for clinical and public health testing.
Key Impacts
Data visualisation using Microreact dashboards to connect next-generation sequencing analysis, comprehensive test result data and demographics of people with M. tuberculosis in New York state
Visualization of outputs of NGS pipelines in combination with existing data from systems such as LIMS with Microreact dashboards is providing an efficient way to summarize and view that data in real-time. Collaboration with our LIMS and Information Technology (IT) teams, bioinformaticians, and epidemiology partners demonstrates a path forward for comprehensive integration of NGS data into public health workflows. We strive to expand the utilization of NGS data through providing informative dashboards that can be shared regularly with partners and monitored for trends that may be missed and ultimately hope to demonstrate clinical and public health impact.
Source: Conference 2024