Kyle G. Rodino, PhD, D(ABMM)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
Director, Rittenhouse Molecular Laboratory
Co-Director, Clinical Microbiology Fellowship Program
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Contact InformationHospital of the University of Pennsylvania
4 Gates Building
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Specialty Division
Laboratory Medicine, Precision and Computational Diagnostics
Education
BS (Clinical Laboratory Science), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009
PhD (Microbiology and Immunology), Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Medicine, 2018
Specialty Certification
American Society of Clinical Pathology, Medical Laboratory Science, 2009
Mayo Clinic Quality Fellow, Mayo Clinic Quality Academy, 2018
American Board of Medical Microbiology, 2020
Postgraduate Training
Fellow, Clinical Microbiology , Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education, 2018-2020
Awards and Honors
Mary P. Coleman Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Graduate Research, 2016
Outstanding Abstract and Travel Award. European Society for Coxiella, Chlamydia, Anaplasma, and Rickettsia, 2017
Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society, 2017
Chairman's Award, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Penn Medicine, 2021
University of Pennsylvania Commitment to Excellence Award, 2022
American Society for Clinical Pathology 40 Under Forty, 2022
Penn Medicine Awards of Excellence Alfred Stengel Health System Champion, 2024
Faculty of the Semester, Pennsylvania Hospital School of Medical Laboratory Science, 2025
Memberships and Professional Organizations
American Society for Microbiology, 2008 - Present
American Society for Rickettsiology, 2014 - 2018
Pan American Society for Clinical Virology, 2020 - Present
ABMM Examination Validation Committee, 2021 - 2023
American Society for Clinical Pathology, 2022 - Present
CDC NCEZID Special Emphasis Panel CK22-005 Vector-Borne Diseases Centers of Excellence, 2022 - Present
Association for Molecular Pathology, 2023 - Present
Web Links
Perelman School of Medicine Faculty Page
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Faculty Page
Selected Publications
Help Us to Help You: Recommendations for Continued Enforcement Discretion for Common Infectious Disease Test Modifications under the FDA Final Rule
Rodino KG, Larkin PMK, Graf EH., Clin Chem, 2025, PMID:40238134
Orientia tsutsugamushi Ank5 promotes NLRC5 cytoplasmic retention and degradation to inhibit MHC class I expression
Adcox HE, Hunt JR, Allen PE, Siff TE, Rodino KG, Ottens AK, Carlyon JA., Nat Commun 15(): 8069, 2024, PMID:39277599
Defining the value of medical microbiology consultation
Rodino KG, Luethy PM, Abbott AN, Bender JM, Eberly AR, Gitman M, Leber A, Dien Bard J; Personnel Standards and Workforce Subcommittee, American Society for Microbiology., J Clin Microbiol 62(): e0035924, 2024, PMID:38904385
Detection and quantification of Babesia species intraerythrocytic parasites by flow cytometry
Vanderboom PM, Misra A, Rodino KG, Eberly AR, Greenwood JD, Morris HE, Norrie FC, Fernholz EC, Pritt BS, Norgan AP., Am J Clin Pathol 161(): 451-462, 2024, PMID:38113371
SARS-CoV-2 evolution during prolonged infection in immunocompromised patients
Marques AD, Graham-Wooten J, Fitzgerald AS, Sobel Leonard A, Cook EJ, Everett JK, Rodino KG, Moncla LH, Kelly BJ, Collman RG, Bushman FD., mBio 15(): e0011024, 2024, PMID:38364100
Status check: next-generation sequencing for infectious-disease diagnostics
Rodino KG, Simner PJ., J Clin Invest 134(): e178003, 2024, PMID:38357923
Development of a scoring system to identify high-yield specimens for bacterial broad-range 16S rRNA gene PCR with sequencing at a tertiary care medical center
Dumm RE, Glaser LJ, Rodino KG., Am J Clin Pathol 160(): 477-482, 2023, PMID:37458096
Laboratory Preparedness for the Current Monkeypox Outbreak
Kyle G. Rodino, N. Esther Babady, Gonzalo Bearman, Matthew J Binnicker, Stuart N Isaacs, Benjamin A Pinsky, David J Weber, Clinical Chemistry 69(2): 118-124, 2023
Multiple Introductions of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Delta Variants into White-Tailed Deer in Pennsylvania
Marques AD, Sherrill-Mix S, Everett JK, Adhikari H, Reddy S, Ellis JC, Zeliff H, Greening SS, Cannuscio CC, Strelau KM, Collman RG, Kelly BJ, Rodino KG, Bushman FD, Gagne RB, Anis E., mBio 13(5): e0210122, 2022, PMID:36000731
When to Think About Other Borreliae:: Hard Tick Relapsing Fever (Borrelia miyamotoi), Borrelia mayonii, and Beyond
Rodino KG, Pritt BS., Infect Dis Clin North Am 36(3): 689-701, 2022, PMID:36116843
