Dr. Janet E. Stout is president and director of Special Pathogens Laboratory, and research associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. A clinical and environmental microbiologist, she is credited as the first to demonstrate the link between Legionnaires’ disease and the presence of Legionella in hospital water systems. Stout has authored more than 80 peer review papers on Legionella and Legionnaires' disease.