Technical Specialist II, Clinical Parasitology Lab
Mayo Clinic
Heather Morris has been a medical laboratory scientist (MLS) and technical specialist in the Mayo Clinic Clinical Parasitology lab for more than 20 years. She is an instructor in Clinical Parasitology for the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science and plays an active role in the education of clinical microbiology fellows, Infectious diseases fellows, pathology residents, and MLS students. She received her Clinical Laboratory Science degree from the University of Kansas Medical Center. She is experienced in all clinical laboratory diagnostics and procedures, including stool and blood parasitic examination, advanced parasitologic procedures, and the identification of macroscopic parasites. Most recently, she evaluated and implemented an artificial intelligence algorithm for identification of protozoan parasites in stool specimens.