Gordon Stout                                                               

Research Manager
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Laboratory           

How long have you worked in Pediatrics?  Since August 1981                                           

What is your favorite thing about your job?  The privilege of working with an outstanding group of  physician-scientists. 

What is your hometown?  Louisville (Germantown)

What is your favorite movie?  Nearly anything Star Trek, Second Hand Lions, Apollo 13

Tell us about your family:  Kathryn (a retiree of Pediatrics) and I live over the river and through the woods on 15 acres, with our yellow lab/border collie mix, Sadie.  Daughter Carrie lives in New Albany.

Do you have pets?  Sadie had many canine and feline predecessors.

Next vacation?  Hunkering down at Daisy Hill, trying to evade The Covid.

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?  Something in the field of biology.

What is one of your proudest accomplishments?  How does one choose a favorite from such a variety of research topics.  Highlights include diagnostic virology with Dr. Garrett Adams; antiviral susceptibility, rapid diagnosis of respiratory viruses, viral vaccines with Dr.Jerry Rabalais; CMV seroprevalence, and tick-borne infections in children, molecular cloning of viral DNA, and more viral vaccines with Dr. Gary Marshall; pneumococcal serotyping and susceptibility assays with Dr. Chris Harrison; DNA strain typing, antibiotic susceptibility in neonates, and biorepository with Drs. Charles Woods, Kris Bryant, and Julianne Green; and weekly statistical updates of viral and bacterial pathogens with Dr. Alan Junkins.  Whole genome sequencing with Dr. Green is on the horizon.        

What is your favorite quote?  “Time is the fire in which we burn” and “Do unto others….”

What was your first job?  Growing up Dad’s right-hand man, mowing, painting, home repairs, totin’ and fetchin’, etc.  First paying job was working summers at a large, local industrial and steel supply company to save for tuition to UofL.

What is your favorite ice cream?  Nearly anything chocolate