User:Misulovestiramisu/Dr. Susan L. Fink

Susan L. Fink is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, and a board

certified pathologist.

Early life and Education
Susan L. Flink received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in 1999, PhD. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2007. Susan L. Flink received her MD degree from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2009. She received her Post-Doctoral training under the Departments of Immunobiology and Laboratory Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in New Haven, Connecticut.

Career and Research
Susan L. Flink's research interests include Clinical Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Virology, and Innate Immunity. Her medical appointments include Assistant Director at the Yale-New Haven Hospital Clinical Microbiology Laboratory in New Haven from 2015-2016 and Assistant Director at the University of Washington Clinical Immunology Laboratory from 2016 to present in Seattle, Washington.

Flink's academic appointments began with Instructor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine from 2015 to 2016. Then, she took position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington's Department of Laboratory Medicine from 2016-2020. Starting in 2020, she became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Washington.

Publications
Susan L. Fink has 46 publications. Some of her published works include:

Beers C, Honey K, Fink S, Forbush K, Rudensky A. Differential regulation of cathepsin S and cathepsin L in interferon gamma-treated macrophages. J Exp Med. 2003 Jan 20;197(2):169-79. doi: 10.1084/jem.20020978. PubMed PMID: 12538657; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2193812.

Bergsbaken T, Fink SL, den Hartigh AB, Loomis WP, Cookson BT. Coordinated host responses during pyroptosis: caspase-1-dependent lysosome exocytosis and inflammatory cytokine maturation. J Immunol. 2011 Sep 1;187(5):2748-54. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1100477. Epub 2011 Jul 29. PubMed PMID: 21804020; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3660150.

Bryan A, Pepper G, Wener MH, Fink SL, Morishima C, Chaudhary A, Jerome KR, Mathias PC, Greninger AL. Performance Characteristics of the Abbott Architect SARS-CoV-2 IgG Assay and Seroprevalence in Boise, Idaho. J Clin Microbiol. 2020 Jul 23;58(8). doi: 10.1128/JCM.00941-20. Print 2020 Jul 23. PubMed PMID: 32381641; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7383515.