Ellen Knudsen

Background

About Ellen Knudsen

I am an ASCP-certified Medical Laboratory Scientist (2011) with ten years of experience in a clinical laboratory setting. The world-renowned Cleveland Clinic was the site of my clinical laboratory science training. I had the opportunity to learn from some of the best pathologists and medical laboratory scientists in the country with rotations through the blood bank, chemistry, hematology, microbiology, and molecular pathology. After four years in the chemistry and hematology laboratories at Mayo Clinic Arizona, I am currently applying my skills at Phoenix Childrens Hospital laboratory as a generalist. I work primarily in hematology and chemistry with some experience in basic microbiology as well. I spend my time performing urinalysis using the Iris analyzer, running quality control and patient samples on the Siemens Vista chemistry analyzer, running CBCs and body fluid cell counts on the Sysmex hematology analyzer, evaluating blood cell morphology on peripheral blood smears and body fluid cytospin preps, and performing stat Gram stains and other stat manual assays in the microbiology lab.