Karissa Culbreath, Ph.D.
Tricore Reference Laboratories
Karissa Culbreath, Ph.D., is the Medical Director of Infectious Diseases at Tricore Reference Laboratories and an associate professor of pathology at University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. She received a Ph.D in microbiology and immunology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. and completed a fellowship in medical and public health microbiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Culbreath is a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Microbiology. Her research interests include implementation of digital imaging methodologies in the clinical laboratory and microbiology capacity building in resource-constrained areas.