Ellen Jo Baron

Ellen Jo Baron, has for the last 8 years been the Executive Director of Medical Affairs at Cepheid. Dr. Baron, among many other accomplishments, is also a Professor Emerita at Stanford, and a past Medical Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at Stanford. Having spent much of the last decade communicating the impact of rapid molecular diagnostic assays to hospitals on Cepheid’s behalf, she brings to Specific unique understanding of and perspective regarding the practical needs of customers as antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection poses an increasingly urgent challenge.