Bobbie Collett Sutton, MD

Bobbie Collett Sutton, MD, PhD, attended Western Kentucky University, earning two bachelor of science degrees, the first with a double major in biology and chemistry, and the second with an area of concentration in medical technology. Dr. Sutton then attended Indiana University, earning a PhD in microbiology and immunology with doctoral thesis work exploring the biology of Chlamydia trachomatis. She earned an MD at the same institution, and went on to an anatomic and clinical pathology residency at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University, and a residency year in general surgical pathology at Medical University of South Carolina.

Dr. Sutton has practiced pathology in the Great Lakes area since 1995, and completed an additional fellowship in Molecular Genetic Pathology at The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in 2007. She is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology with specialty certification in Molecular Genetic Pathology and Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine. A staff pathologist at The South Bend Medical Foundation for 17 years, she was medical director of a moderate sized blood collection facility and transfusion services for local hospitals, as well as a growing molecular pathology laboratory. She also performed service work in surgical pathology and cytology.

Dr. Sutton joined True Health Diagnostics as Vice President of Women’s Health and Laboratory Director in August, 2017, where she leads a multidisciplinary team that developed and validated multiple new platforms and tests within an enlarging clinical laboratory, including a new anatomic pathology division. A skilled teacher, she has lectured on gastrointestinal pathology at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, and has instructed medical students in transfusion medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, South Bend Campus. She is interested in all phases of medical education, including the multiple disciplines of pathology and the supporting biomedical sciences.