Dr. Pence is the Clinical Microbiologist at Cook Children's Medical Center. Dr. Pence received her BS in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006 and her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of California, San Diego in 2012. In 2014, she completed a fellowship in Clinical Microbiology at Washington University in St. Louis and joined Cook Children's Medical Center. Dr. Pence serves on Cook Children's Infection Control committee, Antmicrobial Stewardship Committee, Lab Stewardship committee, Pharmacy & Therapeutics committee and the Research Development Council. Her interests include clinician and technologist education, quality, rapid diagnostics, and diagnostic stewardship.