David R. Hillyard, MD

Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine

Specialties

• Medical microbiology
• Microbial genetics

Education

• Medical Degree—Columbia University
• Residency—Pathology Chief Resident, St. Luke’s—Roosevelt Hospital
• Fellowship—Microbial Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine
• Fellowship—Medical Microbiology, University of Utah School of Medicine

Certification/Affiliations

• New York Qualification

Research Interests

• Molecular Pathology and Genetics
• Hepatitis, HIV

Awards

• National Science Foundation Scholarship (Genetics)

Recent Publications

• Tolan NV, Horowitz GL, Graham CS, et al. New therapies for treating hepatitis C virus: impact on laboratory testing recommendations and clinical management. Clin Chem. 2017;63(12):1799-1805.
• Pyne MT, Mallory MA, Xie HB, et al. Sequencing of the hepatitis D virus RNA WHO international standard. J Clin Virol. 2017;90:52-56.
• Hayden RT, Sun Y, Tang L, et al. Progress in quantitative viral load testing: variability and impact of the WHO quantitative international standards. J Clin Microbiol. 2017;55(2):423-430.
• Mallory MA, Lucic D, Ebbert MT, et al. Evaluation of the Abbott RealTime HCV genotype plus RUO (PLUS) assay with reference to core and NS5B sequencing. J Clin Virol. 2017;90:26-31.
• Zhang Y, Sakthivel SK, Bramley A, et al. Serology enhances molecular diagnosis of respiratory virus infections other than influenza in children and adults hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia. J Clin Microbiol. 2016;55(1):79-89.
• Fryer JF, Heath AB, Minor PD, et al. A collaborative study to establish the 1st WHO International Standard of human cytomegalovirus for nucleic acid amplification technology. Biological. 2016;44(4):242-251.