Josephine Morello, Ph.D., an American microbiologist, is the founder and first editor-in-chief of the American Society for Microbiology's Clinical Microbiology Reviews.
[3][4] Besides her numerous publications in the field, one of her major achievements was her work on automation in the clinical microbiology laboratory.
In 1969, she was the first woman to earn certification by the American Board of Medical Microbiology.
[6] Prior to her long career at the University of Chicago Hospitals, she was an assistant professor of microbiology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.
She retired from her positions of hospital laboratories director and Department of Pathology vice chair at the University of Chicago in 2001.