Richard Spera

Dr. Spera is responsible for the overall conduct of the laboratory. His focus is twofold: to support and educate customers regarding the diagnostic utility and appropriate utilization of assays, and to assist the scientific development team in their quest for new tests which provide the most clinically relevant information possible to the ordering physician.

Dr. Spera received both his BS and MD degrees from Georgetown University. He was an intern and resident in Internal Medicine at North Shore University Hospital-Cornell University Medical College. He also completed his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at North Shore-Cornell in 1992. His research project studied the emergence of Vancomycin-resistant enterococci at a suburban university hospital and the characterization of the vancomycin resistance genotype. After an academic position at the Brooklyn Hospital Center-SUNY Downstate, he relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, in 1998, where he is an Infectious Diseases practitioner. He has and continues to hold leadership positions at the hospitals at which he practices.