Janet E. Stout, Ph.D.

Director, Special Pathogens Laboratory

Address:

University of Pittsburgh

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Pittsburgh, PA 15213

TEL: (412) 281-5335

FAX: (412) 281-7445

e-mail: jes20@pitt.edu

Current Work and Highlights

        Dr. Stout received her BS in Biology from Clarion State College, Clarion, Pennsylvania and her Master and PhD degrees in Microbiology from the University of Pittsburgh, PA.

        She is currently Director of the Special Pathogens Laboratory, where she is working on Legionella detection and disinfection.  She is concurrently a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.  Recent projects include: Eradication of Legionella from hospital water systems by copper-silver ionization, molecular epidemiology of Legionnaires' disease, and Legionella in biofilms, and intracellular antimicrobial susceptibility testing of new agents against Legionella.

        Dr. Stout has authored more than 40 peer review papers in the area of Legionnaires' disease, which include papers in The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of American Medical Association, the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, the Journal of American Water Works Association, and the Journal of Infectious Diseases.  Dr. Stout has also authored three book chapters on Legionnaires' disease.  Dr. Stout is a member of the American Society for Microbiology and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

        Dr. Stout was also a member of the ASHRAE GPC-12 Committee which formulated guidelines for "Minimizing the Risk of Legionellosis associated with Building Water Systems."

Special Awards:

Water Technologist of the Year "For outstanding contributors to the field of water treatment in improving the understanding of Legionella in water distribution systems", Association of Water Technology, Oct, 1999.

Divisional Lecturer, Nosocomial Infection, American Society for Microbiology, Miami Beach, FL, 1988.

Divisional Lecturer, Waterborne Nosocomial Pathogens, Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherpy, San Diego, 1998.

Outstanding Speaker Award, OSAP Research Foundation, 1995.