BCCDC Grand Rounds Dr. Agatha Jassem is a Senior Scientist at the BCCDC Public Health Microbiology & Reference Laboratory and a Clinical Instructor at the UBC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Prior to her current position, Agatha was a Clinical Microbiology Fellow at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. Agatha's work focuses on the development and implementation of molecular-based diagnostic tests.