University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee, Ph.D. Pathology – 2002
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Molecular Virology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
Current Appointment
Director, Knoxville Regional Laboratory, Tennessee Department of Health Laboratory Services. Deputy Directory, State Laboratory. Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee
Special Interests
Antimicrobial resistance
Public Health Microbiology
Improving Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases
Publications
Borod E, Atkinson R, Barclay WR, Carlson SE. Effects of third trimester consumption of eggs high in docosahexanoic acid on docosahexanoic acid status and pregnancy. Lipids 1999;34(Suppl):S231.
Atkinson RM, Mitchel LS, Tuomanen E. Tolerance to glycopeptides in the Streptococcus pneumoniae. Infect Med 2000;17:793-801.
Rodriguez CA, Atkinson RM, Bitar W, Whitney CG, Edwards KM, Mitchell LS, Juan L, Sublett J, Li CS, Liu T, Chesney PJ, Tuomanen EI. Emergence of vancomycin tolerance in pneumococci: Detection with a molecular marker and assessment of clinical impact. J Infect Dis 2004;190(8):1481-1487.
Atkinson RM, LiPuma JJ, Rosenbluth DB, Dunne WM. Chronic Colonization with Pandoraea apista in Cystic Fibrosis Patients Determined by Repetitive-Element-Sequence PCR. J Clin Micro 2006;44(3):833-836.
Atkins KL, Atkinson RM, Shanks A, Parvin CA, Dunne WM, Gross G. Evaluation of Polymerase Chain Reaction for Group B Streptococcus Detection Using an Improved Culture Method. Obstetrics and Gynecology 2006;108(3): 488-491.
Atkinson RM, Johnson G, Root T, Halse T, Wroblewski D, Davies M, Byrd A, Long L, Schaffzin J, Demma L, Angulo F, Goode B, Bopp C, Gerner-Smidt P, Strockbine N, Greene K, and Swaminathan B. Outbreaks of Gastroenteritis in New York and North Carolina, 2005 – Importance of Culture Conformation of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Infection. MMWR 2006;55(38):1042-1045.
