Jeannette Guarner

Jeannette Guarner trained in anatomic and clinical pathology and did a fellowship in surgical pathology at Emory University, Atlanta, GA. After training she returned to Mexico City and worked 7 years at the Instituto National de Cancerologia (INCan) where she became the Director of Ancillary Diagnostic Services. During her years at INCan she implemented a laboratory information system, flow cytometry, cytogenetics, and numerous tumor markers in the clinical laboratory. She did research on gastric cancer associated to Helicobacter pylori in Chiapas, the southernmost State in Mexico. She returned to Atlanta and worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Infectious Disease Pathology Branch. During her tenure at CDC she participated in the investigation of the anthrax bioterrorism attack, discovery of SARS in 2003, and introduction of Mpox in 2003 and West Nile virus into the USA. Currently she works at Emory University and is Professor of Pathology and Laborator