Raghava Potula, PhD
Raghava Potula is the Medical Director of Clinical Microbiology, Immunology and Virology Laboratories, Temple University Hospital. He is Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Center of Substance Abuse Research at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine. His clinical research interests include use of molecular methodologies to develop more accurate, cost-effective, and timely laboratory tests; address specific infectious disease questions, such as the prevalence and epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance; and outcome studies aimed at measuring the clinical and financial impact of new diagnostic tests and algorithms. His extramurally funded basic research interest encompasses an interdisciplinary field of infectious disease, substance abuse and immune modulation.
The Temple University Hospital Clinical Microbiology and Immunology section is a full-service laboratory in bacteriology, virology, mycobacteriology, mycology, parasitology, and immunology. It provides services to patients at Temple University Hospital, Shriner’s Hospital for Children, TUH-Episcopal Campus, TUH-Jeanes Campus, and the Fox Chase Cancer Center. The laboratory is equipped with instrumentation for detection, isolation, and characterization of infectious agents, using rapid molecular assays where appropriate to optimize patient care. Increasingly, we have been leveraging the speed and accuracy of mass spectrometry to enhance laboratory identification of bacteria, fungi, and mycobacteria.
