Karen White, MD, PhD
Physician, Critical Carle
Phone: (217) 383-3087
Email: Karen.White@carle.com
Research Interests
- Developing methods to identify early stages of sepsis in patients
- Creating biomarker panels
- Identifying effective treatments for inflammation due to sepsis
- Creating tablet-based platforms for ACLS and sepsis protocols for easy management
Education and Training
- PhD, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 1991
- Fellowship, St. John's Mercy Medical Center and St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 2006
- Residency, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 2004
- MD, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana, IL, 2001
Publications
- Valera E, Kindratenko V, Jankelow AM, Heredia J, Kim AY, Cowell TW, Chen CL, White K, Han HS, Bashir R. Electrochemical point-of-care devices for the diagnosis of sepsis. Curr Opin Electrochem. 2023 Jun;39:101300. doi: 10.1016/j.coelec.2023.101300. Epub 2023 Apr 14. PMID: 37483649
- Ganguli A, Lim J, Mostafa A, Saavedra C, Rayabharam A, Aluru NR, Wester M, White KC, Kumar J, McGuffin R, Frederick A, Valera E, Bashir R. A culture-free biphasic approach for sensitive and rapid detection of pathogens in dried whole-blood matrix. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Oct 4;119(40):e2209607119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2209607119. Epub 2022 Sep 26. PMID: 36161889
- Lim J, Stavins R, Kindratenko V, Baek J, Wang L, White K, Kumar J, Valera E, King WP, Bashir R. Microfluid point-of-care device for detection of early strains and B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 virus. Lab Chip. 2022 Mar 29;22(7):1297-1309. doi: 10.1039/d2lc00021k. PMID: 35244660
Academic (or Faculty) Appointments
- Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Clinical Professor