Kenneth D. Beaman PhD

Dr. Kenneth Beaman received his bachelor's degree in 1975 from Colorado State University. He was a fellow in the Clinical Microbiology Lab at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation from 1975 to 1978. He received his PhD in microbiology and immunology from Ohio State University in 1982. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pathology at Yale from 1982 to 1985. During his fellowship at Yale University, he was a member of the transplantation laboratory.

Dr. Beaman's research interests are in clinical immunology and in immune suppression, particularly during pregnancy. In 1985, he joined the Microbiology and Immunology discipline at the Chicago Medical School. He founded the Clinical Immunology Laboratory at CMS in 1987. This laboratory supports a variety of autoimmune/rheumatology testing; its primary focus is diagnostic tests pertaining to the immunology of pregnancy. The Clinical Immunology Laboratory is one of three laboratories in the United States certified by the Committee on Postdoctoral Educational Program (CPEP) to educate postdoctoral students who are eligible for the American Board of Medical Laboratory Immunology.

Dr. Beaman is a fellow of the American Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists and a Diplomat of the American Board of Medical Laboratory Immunology. He is on the council of several national and international societies of both reproductive and clinical immunology.