Tess Karre, M.D., FCAP, MT(ASCP)
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Tess Karre, M.D., FCAP, MT(ASCP), is an associate professor and medical director of the microbiology laboratory at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, a position she has held since 2024.
She earned a B.S. in medical technology from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and worked as a clinical laboratory scientist before receiving her M.D. from Creighton University in 2004. Karre completed her residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at the Penrose–St. Francis Pathology Program in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2008, followed by a fellowship in microbiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in 2009.
From 2009-2011, she served as an assistant professor at the University of Colorado and Director of the Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Laboratories at Denver Health Medical Center. From 2011-2024, she was Director of Microbiology and a pathologist at Methodist Hospital and Children’s Nebraska in Omaha.
Karre is active in several national organizations, including the College of American Pathologists, where she serves on the Microbiology Committee, and the American Society for Microbiology, where she is a member of the Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines Committee.
She earned a B.S. in medical technology from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and worked as a clinical laboratory scientist before receiving her M.D. from Creighton University in 2004. Karre completed her residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at the Penrose–St. Francis Pathology Program in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2008, followed by a fellowship in microbiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in 2009.
From 2009-2011, she served as an assistant professor at the University of Colorado and Director of the Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Laboratories at Denver Health Medical Center. From 2011-2024, she was Director of Microbiology and a pathologist at Methodist Hospital and Children’s Nebraska in Omaha.
Karre is active in several national organizations, including the College of American Pathologists, where she serves on the Microbiology Committee, and the American Society for Microbiology, where she is a member of the Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines Committee.