Contact Information

Richard Feathers

Gray-Bigelow 5- 526
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA  02114

Phone: 617-726-3612

Email: rfeathers@mgh.harvard.edu

    Microbiology Laboratory

    The Microbiology Laboratory is a full-service laboratory located in the Gray-Bigelow building on floor five and serves adult and pediatric patients. Our staff processes over 500,000 specimens per year and is open 24 hours a day to accession and process specimens.

    The specialized services include highly developed test menus in bacteriology, virology, parasitology, mycobacteriology, mycology, and infectious diseases serology.

    In addition to conventional culture and microscopic methods, the laboratory offers several rapid diagnostic tests and detection of difficult-to-culture pathogens using molecular methods.

    Faculty

    • Eric S. Rosenberg, MD - Director, Microbiology Laboratory
    • John A. Branda, MD -  Associate Director,Microbiology Laboratory
    • Virginia M. Pierce, MD - Associate Director, Microbiology Laboratory
    • Sarah E. Turbett, MD, Assistant Director, Microbiology Laboratory

     

    Physician Profiles

    • Eric Rosenberg, MD

      • Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
      • Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital
      • Editor, Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital, New England Journal of Medicine

    • John Branda, MD

      • Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
      • Associate Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital
      • Associate Pathologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

    • Sarah Turbett, MD

      • Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
      • Assistant Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital
      • Assistant in Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital
    70%
    70%

    It is estimated that 70% of medical decision making is derived from laboratory results

    13 Million

    Pathology's annual volume exceeds 13 million clinical laboratory tests