Stephen Salipante, M.D., Ph.D., is a board-certified pathologist at UW Medical Center and a UW Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. He is assistant director of the Clinical Molecular Genetics Laboratory, director of Laboratory Medicine's Next-Generation Sequencing Analytics Laboratory and Co-director of the Molecular Microbiology Laboratory.

Dr. Salipante ensures that UW’s Molecular Diagnostic laboratories offer the highest possible level of patient care through the use of quality testing practices, and by developing innovative and novel diagnostic assays for use in patient care.

Dr. Salipante earned his M.D. and Ph.D. at the UW. He carries out translational genomics research pertinent to cancers and infectious disease.