Kimberly E. Hanson
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Kimberly E. Hanson, MD, MHS

Languages spoken: English

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University of Utah Hospital

Infectious Diseases, Area E
50 N Medical Dr
Salt Lake City , UT 84132
801-585-2031
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  • Kimberly Hanson, MD, MHS is a board certified physician in Adult Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology. She has specialized expertise in the diagnosis and management of opportunistic viral, fungal and mycobacterial diseases. Her primary clinical focus is transplant and cancer chemotherapy-related infections.

    Specialties

    Board Certification

    American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Infectious Disease)
    American Board of Pathology (Sub: Medical Microbiology)

  • Kimberly Hanson, MD, MHS is a board certified physician in Adult Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology. She has specialized expertise in the diagnosis and management of opportunistic viral, fungal and mycobacterial diseases. Her primary clinical focus is transplant and cancer chemotherapy-related infections.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Internal Medicine -Professor
    Pathology -Adjunct Professor
    Academic Divisions Infectious Diseases
    Board Certification
    American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Infectious Disease)
    American Board of Pathology (Sub: Medical Microbiology)

    Education history

    Undergraduate Anthropology - Northwestern University B.A.
    Professional Medical Medicine - Northwestern University Medical School M.D.
    Internship Internal Medicine - Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Intern
    Residency Internal Medicine - Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Resident
    Chief Resident Internal Medicine - Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Chief Medical Resident
    Fellowship Infectious Disease - Duke University Medical Center Fellow
    Graduate Training Health Sciences - Duke University Medical Center Master's
    Fellowship Medical Microbiology - Duke University Medical Center Fellow

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Hanson KE, Azar MM, Banerjee R, Chou A, Colgrove RC, Ginocchio CC, Hayden MK, Holodiny M, Jain S, Koo S, Levy J, Timbrook TT, Caliendo A (2020). Molecular Testing for Acute Respiratory Tract Infections: Clinical and Diagnostic Recommendations From the IDSA's Diagnostics Committee. Clinical infectious diseases, 71(10), 2744-2751. (Read full publication)
    2. Hanson KE, Caliendo AM, Arias CA, Englund JA, Lee MJ, Loeb M, Patel R, El Alayli A, Kalot MA, Falck-Ytter Y, Lavergne V, Morgan RL, Murad MH, Sultan S, Bhimraj A, Mustafa R (2020). Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Diagnosis of COVID-19. Clinical infectious diseases, (Read full publication)
    3. Hanson KE, Caliendo AM, Arias CA, Englund JA, Hayden MK, Lee MJ, Loeb M, Patel R, Altayar O, El Alayli A, Sultan S, Falck-Ytter Y, Lavergne V, Morgan RL, Murad MH, Bhimraj A, Mustafa R (2020). Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Diagnosis of COVID-19:Serologic Testing. Clinical infectious diseases, (Read full publication)
    4. Hanson KE, Caliendo AM, Arias CA, Hayden MK, Englund JA, Lee MJ, Loeb M, Patel R, El Alayli A, Altayar O, Patel P, Falck-Ytter Y, Lavergne V, Morgan RL, Murad MH, Sultan S, Bhimraj A, Mustafa R (2021). The Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Diagnosis of COVID-19: Molecular Diagnostic Testing. Clinical infectious diseases, (Read full publication)
    5. Trevas D, Caliendo AM, Hanson K, Levy J, Ginocchio C (2020). Diagnostic Tests Can Stem the Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance: Infectious Disease Professionals Can Help. Clinical infectious diseases, 72, e893-e900. (Read full publication)
    6. Hanson KE, Altayar O, Caliendo AM, Arias CA, Englund JA, Hayden MK, Lee MJ, Loeb M, Patel R, El Alayli A, Sultan S, Falck-Ytter Y, Lavergne V, Mansour R, Morgan RL, Murad MH, Patel P, Bhimraj A, Mustafa R (2021). The Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Diagnosis of COVID-19: Antigen Testing. Clinical infectious diseases, (Read full publication)
    7. Hanson KE, Gabriel N, Mchardy I, Hoffmann W, Cohen SH, Couturier MR, Thompson GR 3r (2020). Impact of IVIG therapy on serologic testing for infectious diseases. Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, 96(2), 114952. (Read full publication)
    8. Hanson KE, Barker AP, Hillyard DR, Gilmore N, Barrett JW, Orlandi RR, Shakir S (2020). Self-Collected Anterior Nasal and Saliva Specimens versus Health Care Worker-Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for the Molecular Detection of SARS-CoV-2. Journal of clinical microbiology, 58(11), (Read full publication)
    9. Okoye NC, Barker AP, Curtis K, Orlandi RR, Snavely EA, Wright C, Hanson KE, Pearson L (2021). Performance Characteristics of BinaxNOW COVID-19 Antigen Card for Screening Asymptomatic Individuals in a University Setting. Journal of clinical microbiology, 59(4), (Read full publication)
    10. Zhang SX, Babady NE, Hanson KE, Harrington AT, Larkin PMK, Leal SM Jr, Luethy PM, Martin IW, Pancholi P, Procop GW, Riedel S, Seyedmousavi S, Sullivan KV, Walsh TJ, Lockhart SR, Fungal Diagnostics Laboratories Consortium (FDLC) (2021). Recognition of Diagnostic Gaps for Laboratory Diagnosis of Fungal Diseases: Expert Opinion from the Fungal Diagnostics Laboratories Consortium (FDLC). Journal of clinical microbiology, 59(7), e0178420. (Read full publication)
    11. Kim JH, Goulston C, Sanders S, Lampas M, Zangari M, Tricot G, Hanson K (2012). Cytomegalovirus reactivation following autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation for multiple myeloma in the era of novel chemotherapeutics and tandem transplantation. Biology of blood and marrow transplantation, 18(11), 1753-8. (Read full publication)
    12. White SK, Schmidt RL, Walker BS, Hanson K (2020). (1¿3)-ß-D-glucan testing for the detection of invasive fungal infections in immunocompromised or critically ill people. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 7, CD009833. (Read full publication)
    13. Young BA, Hanson KE, Gomez C (2019). Molecular Diagnostic Advances in Transplant Infectious Diseases. Current infectious disease reports, 21(12), 52. (Read full publication)
    14. Walker BS, Schmidt RL, Tantravahi S, Kim K, Hanson K (2019). Cost-effectiveness of antifungal prophylaxis, preemptive therapy, or empiric treatment following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Transplant infectious disease, 21(5), e13148. (Read full publication)
    15. Sobczyk J, Pyne MT, Barker A, Mayer J, Hanson KE, Samore MH, Noriega (2021). Efficient and effective single-step screening of individual samples for SARS-CoV-2 RNA using multi-dimensional pooling and Bayesian inference. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 18(179), 20210155. (Read full publication)
    16. Lau AF, Walchak RC, Miller HB, Slechta ES, Kamboj K, Riebe K, Robertson AE, Gilbreath JJ, Mitchell KF, Wallace MA, Bryson AL, Balada-Llasat JM, Bulman A, Buchan BW, Burnham CD, Butler-Wu S, Desai U, Doern CD, Hanson KE, Henderson CM, Kostrzewa M, Ledeboer NA, Maier T, Pancholi P, Schuetz AN, Shi G, Wengenack NL, Zhang SX, Zelazny AM, Frank K (2019). Multicenter Study Demonstrates Standardization Requirements for Mold Identification by MALDI-TOF MS. Frontiers in microbiology, 10, 2098. (Read full publication)
    17. Liou TG, Adler FR, Cahill BC, Cox DR, Cox JE, Grant GJ, Hanson KE, Hartsell SC, Hatton ND, Helms MN, Jensen JL, Kartsonaki C, Li Y, Leung DT, Marvin JE, Middleton EA, Osburn-Staker SM, Packer KA, Shakir SM, Sturrock AB, Tardif KD, Warren KJ, Waddoups LJ, Weaver LJ, Zimmerman E, Paine R 3r (2021). SARS-CoV-2 innate effector associations and viral load in early nasopharyngeal infection. Physiological reports, 9(4), e14761. (Read full publication)
    18. Martin RM, Burke K, Verma D, Xie H, Langer J, Schlaberg R, Swaminathan S, Hanson K (2020). Contact Transmission of Vaccinia to an Infant Diagnosed by Viral Culture and Metagenomic Sequencing. Open forum infectious diseases, 7(4), ofaa111. (Read full publication)
    19. Humphries RM, Azar MM, Caliendo AM, Chou A, Colgrove RC, Fabre V, Ginocchio CC, Hanson KE, Hayden MK, Pillai DR, Pollock NR, Lee F (2021). To Test, Perchance to Diagnose: Practical Strategies for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Testing. Open forum infectious diseases, 8(4), ofab095. (Read full publication)
    20. Imlay H, Baum P, Brennan DC, Hanson KE, Hodges MR, Hodowanec AC, Komatsu TE, Ljungman P, Miller V, Natori Y, Nickeleit V, O'Rear J, Pikis A, Randhawa PS, Sawinski D, Singh HK, Westman G, Limaye AP, BK Disease Definitions Working Group of the Transplantation Associated Virus Infection Forum with the Forum for Collaborative Research (2022). Consensus Definitions of BK Polyomavirus Nephropathy in Renal Transplant Recipients for Clinical Trials. Clinical infectious diseases, 75, 1210-1216. (Read full publication)
    21. Patel R, Polage CR, Bard JD, May L, Lee FM, Fabre V, Hayden MK, Doernberg SDB, Haake DA, Trautner BW, Grigoryan L, Tsalik EL, Hanson K (2021). Envisioning Future UTI Diagnostics. Clinical infectious diseases, 74, 1284-1292. (Read full publication)
    22. Azar MM, Turbett S, Gaston D, Gitman M, Razonable R, Koo S, Hanson K, Kotton C, Silveira F, Banach DB, Basu SS, Bhaskaran A, Danziger-Isakov L, Bard JD, Gandhi R, Hanisch B, John TM, Odom John AR, Letourneau AR, Luong ML, Maron G, Miller S, Prinzi A, Schwartz I, Simner P, Kumar D, Transplant ID Diagnostics Consensus Conference Working Group (2022). A consensus conference to define the utility of advanced infectious disease diagnostics in solid organ transplant recipients. American journal of transplantation, 22, 3150-3169. (Read full publication)
    23. Ma A, Langer J, Hanson KE, Bradley B (2022). Characterization of the Cytopathic Effects of Monkeypox Virus Isolated from Clinical Specimens and Differentiation from Common Viral Exanthems. Journal of clinical microbiology, 60(12), e0133622. (Read full publication)
    24. Simner PJ, Bard JD, Doern C, Johnson JK, Westblade L, Yenokyan G, Patel R, Hanson KE, Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG (2022). REPORTing of Antimicrobial Resistance from Blood Cultures (REPORT-ABC), an ARLG Survey Summary: Resistance Marker Reporting Practices from Positive Blood Cultures. Clinical infectious diseases, (Read full publication)
    25. Hayden MK, Hanson KE, Englund JA, Lee F, Lee MJ, Loeb M, Morgan DJ, Patel R, El Alayli A, El Mikati IK, Sultan S, Falck-Ytter Y, Mansour R, Amarin JZ, Morgan RL, Murad MH, Patel P, Bhimraj A, Mustafa R (2023). The Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Diagnosis of COVID-19: Antigen Testing. Clinical infectious diseases, (Read full publication)
    26. de Hoog S, Walsh TJ, Ahmed SA, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Alexander BD, Arendrup MC, Babady E, Bai F-Y, Balada-Llasat J-M, Borman A, Chowdhary A, Clark A, Colgrove RC, Cornely OA, Dingle TC, Dufresne PJ, Fuller J, Gangneux J-P, Gibas C, Glasgow H, Gräser Y, Guillot J, Groll AH, Haase G, Hanson K, Harrington A, Hawksworth DL, Hayden RT, Hoenigl M, Hubka V, Johnson K, Kus JV, Li R, Meis JF, Lackner M, Lanternier F, Leal SM Jr, Lee F, Lockhart SR, Luethy P, Martin I, Kwon-Chung KJ, Meyer W, Nguyen MH, Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Palavecino E, Pancholi P, Pappas PG, Procop GW, Redhead SA, Rhoads DD, Riedel S, Stevens B, Sullivan KO, Vergidis P, Roilides E, Seyedmousavi A, Tao L, Vicente VA, Vitale RG, Wang Q-M, Wengenack NL, Westblade L, Wiederhold N, White L, Wojewoda CM, Zhang S (2023). A conceptual framework for nomenclatural stability and validity of medically important fungi: a proposed global consensus guideline for fungal name changes supported by ABP, ASM, CLSI, ECMM, ESCMID-EFISG, EUCAST-AFST, FDLC, IDSA, ISHAM, MMSA, and MSGERC. Journal of clinical microbiology, e0087323. (Read full publication)
    27. Neofytos D, Steinbach WJ, Hanson K, Carpenter PA, Papanicolaou GA, Slavin M (2023). American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Series, #6: Management of Invasive Candidiasis in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Recipients. Transplantation and cellular therapy, 29(4), 222-227. (Read full publication)
    28. Hayden MK, Hanson KE, Englund JA, Lee MJ, Loeb M, Lee F, Morgan DJ, Patel R, El Mikati IK, Iqneibi S, Alabed F, Amarin JZ, Mansour R, Patel P, Falck-Ytter Y, Morgan RL, Murad MH, Sultan S, Bhimraj A, Mustafa R (2023). The Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Diagnosis of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Molecular Diagnostic Testing. Clinical infectious diseases, (Read full publication)
    29. Mallory MA, Hymas WC, Simmon KE, Pyne MT, Stevenson JB, Barker AP, Hillyard DR, Hanson K (2023). Development and validation of a next-generation sequencing assay with open-access analysis software for detecting resistance-associated mutations in CMV. Journal of clinical microbiology, 61(12), e0082923. (Read full publication)
    30. Hayden MK, El Mikati IK, Hanson KE, Englund JA, Humphries RM, Lee F, Loeb M, Morgan DJ, Patel R, Al Ta'ani O, Nazzal J, Iqneibi S, Amarin JZ, Sultan S, Falck-Ytter Y, Morgan RL, Murad MH, Bhimraj A, Mustafa R (2024). Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Diagnosis of COVID-19: Serologic Testing. Clinical infectious diseases, (Read full publication)
    31. de Hoog S, Walsh TJ, Ahmed SA, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Alexander BD, Arendrup MC, Babady E, Bai F-Y, Balada-Llasat J-M, Borman A, Chowdhary A, Clark A, Colgrove RC, Cornely OA, Dingle TC, Dufresne PJ, Fuller J, Gangneux J-P, Gibas C, Glasgow H, Graser Y, Guillot J, Groll AH, Haase G, Hanson K, Harrington A, Hawksworth DL, Hayden RT, Hoenigl M, Hubka V, Johnson K, Kus JV, Li R, Meis JF, Lackner M, Lanternier F, Leal SM Jr, Lee F, Lockhart SR, Luethy P, Martin I, Kwon-Chung KJ, Meyer W, Nguyen MH, Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Palavecino E, Pancholi P, Pappas PG, Procop GW, Redhead SA, Rhoads DD, Riedel S, Stevens B, Sullivan KO, Vergidis P, Roilides E, Seyedmousavi A, Tao L, Vicente VA, Vitale RG, Wang Q-M, Wengenack NL, Westblade L, Wiederhold N, White L, Wojewoda CM, Zhang S (2024). Reply to Kidd et al., "Inconsistencies within the proposed framework for stabilizing fungal nomenclature risk further confusion". Journal of clinical microbiology, 62(4), e0162523. (Read full publication)
    32. Hanson KE, Caliendo AM, Arias CA, Englund JA, Hayden MK, Lee MJ, Loeb M, Patel R, Altayar O, El Alayli A, Sultan S, Falck-Ytter Y, Lavergne V, Morgan RL, Murad MH, Bhimraj A, Mustafa R (2020). Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Diagnosis of COVID-19:Serologic Testing. Clinical infectious diseases, (Read full publication)
    33. Sim BZ, Mah JK, Heldman MR, Stanly KL, Hanson KE, Caliendo AM, Andes D, Ostroskly-Zeichner L, Wingard JR, Alexander B (2025). Plasma microbial cell-free DNA Metagenomic Sequencing for Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Diseases Among High Risk Outpatient and Inpatient Immunocompromised Hosts. Clinical infectious diseases, (Read full publication)
    34. Marchetti M, Fonseca EM, Hanson KE, Barker B, Walter K (2025). The impact of bioinformatic choices on Coccidioides variant identification accuracy. Microbiology spectrum, e0123225. (Read full publication)
    35. Hanson KE, Tsalik E (2025). Host Immune Response Profiling for the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases. The Journal of infectious diseases, (Read full publication)
    36. Kaysen SA, Luo MX, Shean RC, Hanson KE, Bradley BT, Hale G (2025). Challenges and predictive value of morphologic features in panfungal sequencing of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues: A 5-year retrospective study. American journal of clinical pathology, 164(3), 464-473. (Read full publication)
    37. Hanson KE, Azar MM, Banerjee R, Chou A, Colgrove RC, Ginocchio CC, Hayden MK, Holodiny M, Jain S, Koo S, Levy J, Timbrook TT, Caliendo A (2020). Molecular Testing for Acute Respiratory Tract Infections: Clinical and Diagnostic Recommendations From the IDSA's Diagnostics Committee. Clinical infectious diseases, 71(10), 2744-2751. (Read full publication)

    Review

    1. Greninger AL, Dien Bard J, Colgrove RC, Graf EH, Hanson KE, Hayden MK, Humphries RM, Lowe CF, Miller MB, Pillai DR, Rhoads DD, Yao JD, Lee F (2022). Clinical and Infection Prevention Applications of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Genotyping: an Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Society for Microbiology Consensus Review Document. Journal of clinical microbiology, 60(1), e0165921. (Read full publication)
    2. Greninger AL, Dien Bard J, Colgrove RC, Graf EH, Hanson KE, Hayden MK, Humphries RM, Lowe CF, Miller MB, Pillai DR, Rhoads DD, Yao JD, Lee F (2022). Clinical and Infection Prevention Applications of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Genotyping: An Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Society for Microbiology Consensus Review Document. Clinical infectious diseases, 74(8), 1496-1502. (Read full publication)
    3. Imlay H, Seibert AM, Hanson K (2023). Pathogen-agnostic immune biomarkers that predict infection after solid organ transplantation. Transplant infectious disease, e14020. (Read full publication)
    4. Colgrove R, Bruno-Murtha LA, Chastain CA, Hanson KE, Lee F, Odom John AR, Humphries (2022). Tale of the Titers: Serologic Testing for SARS-CoV-2-Yes, No, and Maybe, With Clinical Examples From the IDSA Diagnostics Committee. Open forum infectious diseases, 10(1), ofac674. (Read full publication)
    5. Pham J, Su LD, Hanson KE, Hogan C (2023). Sequence-based diagnostics and precision medicine in bacterial and viral infections: from bench to bedside. Current opinion in infectious diseases, 36(4), 228-234. (Read full publication)
    6. Kukull B, Shakir SM, Hanson K (2022). Performance of Non-nasopharyngeal Sample Types for Molecular Detection of SARS-CoV-2. Clinics in laboratory medicine, 42(2), 249-259. (Read full publication)
    7. Hanson KE, Banerjee R, Doernberg SB, Evans SR, Komarow L, Satlin MJ, Schwager N, Simner PJ, Tillekeratne LG, Patel R, Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Grou (2023). Priorities and Progress in Diagnostic Research by the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group. Clinical infectious diseases, 77(Suppl 4), S314-S320. (Read full publication)
    8. Lewinski MA, Alby K, Babady NE, Butler-Wu SM, Bard JD, Greninger AL, Hanson K, Naccache SN, Newton D, Temple-Smolkin RL, Nolte (2023). Exploring the Utility of Multiplex Infectious Disease Panel Testing for Diagnosis of Infection in Different Body Sites: A Joint Report of the Association for Molecular Pathology, American Society for Microbiology, Infectious Diseases Society of America, and Pan American Society for Clinical Virology. The Journal of molecular diagnostics, 25(12), 857-875. (Read full publication)
    9. Haas AL, Bradley BT, Hanson K (2025). Recent Developments in Culture-Independent Fungal Diagnostics. Infectious disease clinics of North America, 39(1), 41-56. (Read full publication)
    10. Liu C, Rosen EA, Stohs EJ, Imlay H, Nigo M, Gottesdiener LS, So M, Tverdek F, Dadwal S, Gudiol C, Satlin MJ, Seo SK, Trubiano JA, Banerjee R, Hanson KE, Abbo L (2025). Tackling antimicrobial resistance in people who are immunocompromised: leveraging diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship. The Lancet. Infectious diseases, (Read full publication)
    11. Liu C, Rosen EA, Stohs EJ, Imlay H, Nigo M, Gottesdiener LS, So M, Tverdek F, Dadwal S, Gudiol C, Satlin MJ, Seo SK, Trubiano JA, Banerjee R, Hanson KE, Abbo L (2025). Tackling antimicrobial resistance in people who are immunocompromised: leveraging diagnostic and antimicrobial stewardship. The Lancet. Infectious diseases, (Read full publication)

    Commentary

    1. Hanson KE, Caliendo A (2023). Plasma cell free DNA metagenomic sequencing: new insights from the PICKUP study. Clinical infectious diseases, (Read full publication)

    Editorial

    1. Imlay H, Hanson K (2023). Updates in Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Infections Among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients. Infectious disease clinics of North America, 37(3), xiii-xv. (Read full publication)

    Letter

    1. Shakir SM, Barker AP, Hillyard DR, Gilmore N, Barrett JW, Orlandi RR, Hanson K (2020). Combined Self-Collected Anterior Nasal and Oropharyngeal Specimens versus Provider-Collected Nasopharyngeal Swabs for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2. Journal of clinical microbiology, 59(1), (Read full publication)
    2. Molnar MZ, Hall IE, Raghavan D, Shihab F, Imlay H, Hanson KE, Gomez CA, Campsen J, Kim R, Baker N, Rofaiel (2022). Kidney transplantation from SARS-CoV-2-positive deceased donor. American journal of transplantation, 22(4), 1280-1282. (Read full publication)

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