Navigating Your Path - S1E5: A Conversation with Ken Gavina

Navigating Your Path · Jul 8, 2026 · 1h 20m · transcript

Finding Your Path in Clinical Microbiology: Dr. Ken Gavina on Mentorship, Saying No, and Building a Career

In this episode of Navigating Your Path, Duane talks with Dr. Ken Gavina, Medical Director of Clinical Microbiology and Serology at Eskenazi Health, and Assistant Professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine, about his path from Winnipeg to U.S. clinical lab leadership. Ken describes undergraduate research at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory, PhD work in malaria diagnostics for low-resource settings, pivots through industry and a molecular diagnostics postdoc, and how…