Glen Hansen PhD

Dr. Glen Hansen is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of Minnesota. He is the medical director for the clinical microbiology and molecular diagnostics laboratory at Hennepin County Medical Center HCMC The Clinical Microbiology laboratory is full-service microbiology including areas of virology, mycology, mycobacteriology, bacteriology, parasitology, and molecular diagnostics. He graduated from The University of Saskatchewan and Royal University hospital with a Ph.D. in clinical microbiology. He has formal fellowship training in molecular diagnostics from the New York Public Health Research Institute (PHRI) and clinical and medical microbiology from the University of Washington. He is the former director of microbiology and molecular Diagnostics at Oregon Medical/Peace Health laboratories in Eugene Oregon and has been the director of microbiology and molecular diagnostics at HCMC since 2006.