Bio

Dr. Konstantinos (Kostas) Petritis received his MSc and PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Orleans, France. In 2002, he joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in Richland, WA, as a post-doctoral fellow and later as a senior staff scientist where he worked in the field of mass spectrometry based proteomics. In 2009, he was hired as an associate professor and laboratory head at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, AZ to work on biomarker development. In 2014, he joined the Arizona office of newborn screening and Phoenix Children’s Hospital as a principal investigator where he led several federal public health and research grants before joining CDC in June 2017. He has worked on bioanalytical mass spectrometry, biomarker development, automation, predictive algorithms and proteomic research. His current interests include but not limited to advanced analytical methods development and validation for newborn screening, development of dried blood spots based quality assurance materials and calibrators, clinical assays harmonization and metabolomics.