Susan Novak-Weekley

Dr. Susan Novak-Weekley is the Vice President of Medical Affairs at Qvella. Dr. Novak-Weekley completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Clinical and Public Health Microbiology at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center and Wadsworth Veterans Administration Medical Center, followed by a year in the SmithKline Beecham Clinical Microbiology Laboratory. Subsequently she joined the integrated healthcare network Kaiser Permanente spending 13 years as the Assistant Director and then 10 years as Director of Clinical Microbiology within the Kaiser Permanente Regional Reference Laboratories. Dr. Novak-Weekley was responsible for the high-volume clinical microbiology laboratory consisting of bacteriology, mycology, mycobacteriology, parasitology, virology, autoimmune and infectious disease serology, and molecular infectious disease testing. Dr. Novak-Weekley has been active in multiple elected and volunteer positions in several organizations including the American Society for Microbiology, the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology, and the Association for Molecular Pathology to name a few.

She has presented at numerous scientific meetings and is an author or co-author of over 35 peer reviewed publications, multiple abstracts and multiple book chapters within the field of Microbiology. Susan obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology at Colorado State University in Microbiology and her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the University of Arizona in Microbiology.