Dr. Rodney E. Rohde (@RodneyRohde) is an Advisory Board member of InfectionControl.tips and Regents' Professor, Associate Director - Translational Health Research Center, and Chair of the Medical Laboratory Science Program (MLS) in the College of Health Professions of Texas State University, where he spends a great deal of time mentoring and coaching students in this sometimes mysterious and vague path. He has been recognized with teaching excellence at both Texas State and Austin Community College. Dr. Rohde's background is in public health and clinical microbiology, and his PhD dissertation at Texas State was aligned with his clinical background: MRSA knowledge, learning and adaptation. His research focuses on adult education and public health microbiology with respect to rabies virology, oral rabies wildlife vaccination, antibiotic resistant bacteria, and molecular diagnostics/biotechnology. He has published a book on MRSA stories, over 50 research articles, book chapters and abstracts and presented at more than 100 international, national and state conferences. In 2015, Dr. Rohde received the Cardinal Health #urEssential Award as Champion of the CLS Profession, named a Top 20 Professor of CLS and received the Texas State Mariel M. Muir Mentoring Award. Likewise, he was awarded the 2015 and the 2012 Distinguished Author Award and the 2014 and 2007 ASCLS Scientific Research Award for his work with rabies and MRSA, respectively. Learn more about his work here. Dr. Rohde is the past President of the Texas Association for Clinical Laboratory Science (TACLS) and has been involved in licensure efforts in Texas since 2007. In 2017, Dr. Rohde became a Fellow of the Association of Clinical Scientists, and was honoured as a TEDx Speaker and Global Fellow of the Global Citizenship Alliance.Specialties: Public health microbiology, antibiotic resistance (MRSA), rabies epidemiology and diagnostics, molecular diagnostics, adult learning