D. Jane Hata, Ph.D., D(ABMM) is the Associate Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratories at Mayo Clinic in Florida, and Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine. Her responsibilities include technical oversight of the Parasitology and Molecular Virology Laboratories, including microbiological testing for the Mayo Clinical Laboratories reference service. She is a past member of the Microbiology Resource Committee for the College of American Pathologists, and past Chair of the Committee on Postgraduate Educational Programs for the American Society for Microbiology. Dr. Hata received her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri – Columbia and completed a Fellowship in Clinical Microbiology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Her research interests include diagnosis of fungal infections, development of molecular diagnostic techniques for the clinical laboratory, diagnostic stewardship, and application of artificial intelligence for microscopic image interpretation.