Kathryn Jayasinghe

Kathryn Jayasinghe, SM, supervises the microbiology laboratory at an acute-care hospital. Her clinical focus centers on bacterial identification, culture media, and diagnostic laboratory tests. With a master of science in clinical microbiology, she has evaluated automated antibiotic susceptibility testing platforms and interpreted thousands of Gram stains on the bench. Jayasinghe lives near a state park with her family and continues to oversee daily specimen workups across the pathology service.