Marc R. Couturier, PhD

Professor (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Education

• Doctorate Degree—Bacteriology, University of Alberta
• Fellowship—Alberta Provincial Laboratory for Public Health
• Fellowship—Medical Microbiology, University of Utah School of Medicine

Past Role

• Medical Director, Microbial Immunology 1 and 2, ARUP Laboratories

Certification/Affiliations

• American Board of Medical Microbiology

Research Interests

• Diagnostic parasitology
• Developing improved diagnostics for emerging agents of infectious gastroenteritis
• Helicobacter pylori diagnostics

Awards

• Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Young Investigators Award, American Society for Microbiology
• The Bill Roberts Award for Excellence in Laboratory Medicine, University of Utah
• Outstanding Teaching Award in Clinical Pathology, University of Utah

Recent Publications

• Shakir SM, Shakir FA, Couturier MR. Updates to the diagnosis and clinical management of Helicobacter pylori infections. Clin Chem. 2023;69(8):869-880.
• Bradbury RS, Sapp SGH, Potters I, et al. Where have all the diagnostic morphological parasitologists gone? J Clin Microbiol. 2022;60(11):e0098622.
• Shakir SM, Otiso J, Keller G, et al. Multicenter evaluation of a gradient diffusion method for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Helicobacter pylori. Microbiol Spectr. 2022;10(2):e0211121.
• Mathison BA, Mehta N, Couturier MR. Human acanthocephaliasis: a thorn in the side of parasite diagnostics. J Clin Microbiol. 2021;59(11):e0269120.
• Mathison BA, Kohan JL, Walker JF, et al. Detection of intestinal protozoa in trichrome-stained stool specimens by use of a deep convolutional neural network. J Clin Microbiol. 2020;58(6):e02053-19.