{"id":1027,"date":"2021-06-07T19:54:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T19:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2021-06-07T19:54:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T19:54:33","slug":"rachael-liesman-director-of-microbiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/2021\/06\/07\/rachael-liesman-director-of-microbiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachael Liesman, Director of Microbiology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rachael Liesman &#8217;06 is the Director of Microbiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Her work in establishing testing sites and processes for COVID has been remarkable and she has since become a frequently quoted expert in the news, including the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/18\/health\/coronavirus-pool-testing.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>. In 2020 she was recognized as a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansashealthsystem.com\/news-room\/news\/2021\/03\/heroes-in-healthcare\" target=\"_blank\">Healthcare Hero<\/a>\u00a0by Kansas City&#8217;s Ingram&#8217;s. She was\u00a0selected\u00a0by the Chiefs\u00a0to attend the Super Bowl as a vaccinated healthcare worker to represent Kansas City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachael Liesman &#8217;06 is the Director of Microbiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Her work in establishing testing sites and processes for COVID has been remarkable and she has since become a frequently quoted expert in the news, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/2021\/06\/07\/rachael-liesman-director-of-microbiology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2006classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}