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Alison Woodworth, PhD
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alison.woodworth@uky.edu
HA 601
Position(s): 
Professor
Director - Core Clinical Laboratory
Director - Clinical Chemistry
Director - Point of Care Testing
Affiliation(s): 
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Interests / Specialties: 
endocrinology
Sepsis
Maternal Fetal Medicine
Bio / Education: 

B.S. in Molecular Biology - Vanderbilt University (1996)
Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology - Washington University (2003)
Clinical Chemistry Fellowship - Washington University (2006)

Selected Publications: 

Representative Publications & Other Scholarly Work:

Woodworth A, Grenache D, and Gronowski A. Cervicovaginal Interleukin-6 as a Predictor of Preterm Birth in African- Americans.  Clinica Chimica Acta 2011; 412 988-992.

Woodworth A. Prediction of Preterm Birth. Clinical Chemistry Pearls of Laboratory Medicine. 2011

Warrick J, Gronowski AM, Zhao Q, Moffett C, Bishop E, and Woodworth, A Serum Activin A Does Not Predict Ectopic Pregnancy as a Single Measurement Test, Alone or as Part of a Multi-marker Panel Including Progesterone and hCG. Clinica Chimica Acta 2012; 413:707-711.

Cate FL, Moffett C, Gronoswki AM, Grenache DG, Hartmann KE, and Woodworth A.  Analytical and Clinical Validation of the Immulite 1000 hCG Assay for Quantitative Analysis in Urine.  Clinica Chimica Acta 2013; 421: 104-108.

Colón-Franco, JM, Booth GS, and Woodworth A, A Diabetic Newborn?  Clinical Chemistry 2014 60(9): 1240-1241.

Woodworth A, Korpi-Steiner N, Miller J, Rao LV, Yundt-Pacheco J, Kuchipudi L, Parvin CA, Rhea JM, and Molinaro R.  Utilization of Assay Performance Characteristics to Estimate Hb A1c Result Reliability, Clinical Chemistry 2014 60(8):  1073-1079.

Colon-Franco JM, Goodlet R; Cox E, and Woodworth A. Discrepant Results in Plasma, but not Serum in the Beckman Coulter DxI Access HYPERsensitive hTSH 3rd Generation Assay Affect the Management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer and Hyperthyroid Patients.  Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine.  2014; 52(12):e271-4.

Woodworth A. Sepsis and the Clinical Laboratory. Clinical Chemistry Pearls of Laboratory Medicine. 2017

Wiencek JR, Bowman c, Adams B, Sussman C, Sephel G, Linton MF, Nichols JH, and Woodworth A.  Falsely Decreased Carbon Dioxide in Patients with Hypertriglyceridemia.  Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine. 2017:  2(1):  123-125.

Parli SE, Trivedi G, Woodworth A, Chang PK.  Procalcitonin:  Usefulness in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma.  Surg Infect.  2018: 19(2):  131-136.

 

BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, INVITED ARTICLE REVIEWS:

Woodworth A and Baenziger JU:  The Man/GalNAc-4-SO4-receptor has multiple specificities and functions.  Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation 2001;33: 123-38.

Woodworth A:  Case 74:  A Man with Colitis and Pancytopenia. In Tietz’s Applied Laboratory Medicine, 2nd Edition, Eds.  Scott MG, Gronowski AM, Eby CS.  Hoboken, NJ:  John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007, pp 543 - 549.

Saner K and Woodworth A:  Fertility and Pregnancy Testing. In Self-Assessment in Clinical Laboratory Science II, Ed.  Wu AHB, 2008.

Woodworth A: Fetal Fibronectin, A Marker for Predicting Preterm Birth. Clinical Laboratory News, 2008; 34: 10 – 12.

Woodworth A: Chapter 14: The Respiratory System.  In Laboratory Medicine, 2nd Edition, Ed Michael Laposata: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing 2010, pp 317-325.

Woodworth A, Aleryari S, and Laposata M: Chapter 22 The Endocrine System. In Laboratory Medicine, 2nd Edition, Ed Michael Laposata: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing 2009, McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing 2010, pp 393-437.

Woodworth A and McCudden C: Laboratory Testing in Pregnancy and Reproductive Disorders. Contemporary Practice in Clinical Chemistry, 2nd Edition, AACC Press, Washington, DC, 2011, pp 471-494.

Woodworth A.  Procalcitonin – The answer to the sepsis dilemma?  NACBlog.  2011

Woodworth A.  Decision Support in Medicine CDS:LABMED.  Primary Amernorrhea. 2012

Woodworth A. and Pyle AE.  Sample Processing and Specimen Misidentification Issues in Accurate Results in the Clinical Laboratory, Eds Amitava Dasgupta and Jorge Sepulveda:  Elsevier Press 2013, pp 35 - 51.

Woodworth A and Colón-Franco JM.  Biomarker Panels for the Diagnosis of Sepsis in Clinical Laboratory International Feb/March 2013; 26-28.

Woodworth A.  Should we still be performing Fetal Fibronectin testing in the clinical laboratory?  NACBlog June 2013.

Woodworth A: Chapter 14: The Respiratory System.  In Laboratory Medicine, 2nd Edition, Ed Michael Laposata: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 2014 pp 339-349.

Woodworth A, Lakhani VL, Aleryari S, and Laposata M: Chapter 22 The Endocrine System. In Laboratory Medicine, 2rd Edition, Ed Michael Laposata: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. 2014, p421-467.

Colón-Franco JM and Woodworth A.  Current and novel biomarkers for diagnosis and monitoring of sepsis.  Medical Laboratory Observer.  April 2014

Woodworth A.  The Transparency Revolution in American Healthcare. Clin Lab News.  July 2015

Woodworth A.  At the Heart of Biomarker Discovery. Clin Lab News.  July 2015

Woodworth A.  Endocrinology and Laboratory Medicine: Hormones Are the Key. Clin Lab News.  7/2015

Woodworth A.  As Simple as ABC[C]. Clin Lab News.  July 2015

Woodworth A.  At the Heart of Biomarker Discovery. Clin Lab News.  July 2015

Woodworth A.  A Game Changer in Management of Non-ischemic Cardiac Injury.  Clin Lab News. 7/2015

Woodworth A. and McCudden C: Laboratory Testing in Pregnancy and Reproductive Disorders. Contemporary Practice in Clinical Chemistry, 3nd Edition, AACC, Washington, DC 2016.

Woodworth A and Schuler E.  Thyroid Testing Algorithms in Pregnancy.  Clinical Laboratory News. 2018, 44: 12 – 17.

Woodworth A and Schuler E: Chapter 14: The Respiratory System.  In Laboratory Medicine, 3nd Edition, Ed Michael Laposata: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, In Press

Woodworth A, Lakhani VL, and Laposata M: Chapter 22 The Endocrine System. In Laboratory Medicine, 3rd Edition, Ed Michael Laposata: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. In press

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