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Organized by AACC, the Lab Tests Online Editorial Review Board is made up of volunteers from 20 partner societies representing the clinical laboratory profession and other health professions. At least one member expert from each society sits on the Editorial Review Board and contributes to the development and review of all content on the website. Other laboratory professionals as well as experts in a particular field are consulted at times to assist the Editorial Review Board in the review of content. These individuals are acknowledged in the Sources section of the article they review.

David Alter, MD, FAACC
Associate Professor, Director, Clinical Chemistry
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Emory University Hospital
Atlanta, GA
Affiliation: College of American Pathologists

Roberta B. Carey, PhD, D (ABMM), CMQ/OE (ASQ)
Former Director of Laboratory Quality Management Program
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA
Affiliation: American Society for Microbiology
This activity is being performed by Roberta B. Carey, PhD in her private capacity.
No official support or endorsement by CDC is intended or should be inferred.

Alicia Diaz-Thomas, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Program Director, Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis, TN
Affiliation: Endocrine Society

D. Robert Dufour, MD
Adjunct Professor of Pathology, Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Affiliation: AACC

Meredith Eller, MBA, MT(ASCP)SBBCM, CQA(ASQ)
Technical Specialist, Accreditation and Quality, AABB
Bethesda, MD
Affiliation: AABB

Shannon Haymond, PhD, DABCC, FAACC
Director, Clinical Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Associate Professor of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Affiliation: AACC

Thomas Kampfrath, PhD, DABCC
Medical Officer
Medical, Scientific and Statistical Affairs
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
Walpole, MA
Affiliation: AACC

Barbara A. Karczeski, MS, CGC, MA
Genetic Counselor / Clinical Policy Analyst,
eviCORE Healthcare
Baltimore, MD
Affiliation: National Society of Genetic Counselors

Brooke M. Katzman, PhD
Co-Director, Hospital Clinical Laboratory and Point of Care Testing
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Affiliation: AACC

Anthony Kurec, MS, MASCP, MLT(ASCP), H, DLM
Clinical Associate Professor, Emeritus
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, NY
Affiliation: Clinical Laboratory Management Association

Chuanyi Mark Lu, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair
UCSF Department of Laboratory Medicine
Director, Clinical Laboratories, San Francisco VA Healthcare System
San Francisco, CA
Affiliation: American Society of Hematology

Raquel M. Martinez, PhD, D(ABMM)
System and Core Lab Director
Clinical and Molecular Microbiology
Geisinger
Danville, PA
Affiliation: American Society for Clinical Pathology

Sharon S. Master, PhD
Independent Consultant
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Affiliation: Association of Public Health Laboratories

James H. Nichols, PhD, DABCC, FAACC
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Medical Director, Clinical Chemistry and Point-of-Care Testing
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN
Affiliation: Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute

Mary Lowery Nordberg, PhD, CLSp(CG, MB)
Willis-Knighton Cancer Center
Shreveport, LA
Affiliation: Association for Molecular Pathology

Kathy Nucifora, MPH, MT(ASCP)
Chief Operating Officer, COLA
Columbia, MD
Affiliation: COLA

Elizabeth Palavecino, MD
Professor of Pathology
Director, Clinical Microbiology
Co-Director, Clinical and Translational Mass Spectrometry Center
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Winston-Salem, NC
Affiliation: AACC

Elissa Passiment, EdM, CLS
ASCLS, Executive Vice President Emeritus, McLean, VA
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Laboratory Science
Rutgers, School of Health Related Professions
Affiliation: American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science

Michael A. Pentella, PhD, D(ABMM)
Director, State Hygienic Laboratory
Clinical Professor, University of Iowa, College of Public Health
Iowa City, IA
Affiliation: Association of Public Health Laboratories

Patrick St. Louis, PhD, Dip CC
Clinical Chemist
LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Affiliation: Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists

Kristian T. Schafernak, MD, MPH, FASCP, DABCC, FAACC
Staff Pathologist/Hematopathology Subspecialist and Section Chief, Molecular Pathology and Microbiology, Phoenix Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Child Health and Pathology, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix
Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Phoenix, AZ
Affiliation: American Society for Clinical Pathology

Christine Schimpf BS, MT (ASCP)
AAFP Proficiency Testing Program Manager
Leawood, KS
Affiliation: American Academy of Family Physicians

Christine Snozek, PhD, DABCC, FAACC - Lab Tests Online Executive Editor
Director, Clinical Chemistry and Support Services, Co-director Point-of-Care Testing
Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Arizona
Scottsdale, AZ
Affiliation: AACC

Keith Steinbach, MLT, CACE, MS (IPT), LSSBB
Educator, Edmonton Zone
Alberta Precision Laboratories
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Affiliation: Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science

Michelle Strecker, MS, LCGC
Genetic Counselor
Invitae
San Francisco, CA
Affiliation: National Society of Genetic Counselors

Shawna Swaffar, BS, MT (ASCP), CLS (NCA)
AAFP-PT Technical Operations Specialist
Leawood, KS
Affiliation: American Academy of Family Physicians

Elitza S. Theel, PhD, D(ABMM)
Director, Infectious Diseases Serology Laboratory
Co-Director, Vector-Borne Diseases Laboratory Service Line
Associate Professor, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Affiliation: Infectious Diseases Society of America

William E. Winter, MD, DABCC, FAACC, FCAP
Professor, Departments of Pathology, Immunology & Laboratory Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Affiliation: AACC Academy

Jennifer M. Yoest, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Division of Genomic and Molecular Pathology
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Cleveland, OH
Affiliation: Association for Molecular Pathology

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The following individuals served on the Lab Tests Online Editorial Review Board in the past. Titles, professional positions, and affiliations are listed as they were at the time of the person's Lab Tests Online service and may have changed since then.

Susan Evans, PhD
American Association for Clinical Chemistry, President
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Jan 2001 – Mar 2002

J. David Bessman, MD
Professor of Medicine and Director, Medical Oncology Clinic
University of Texas - Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
Affiliation: American Society of Hematology
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Jan – Dec 2003

Barbara Border, Ph.D. MT(ASCP) CLS(NCA) CLSp(MB)
Associate Professor and Program Director, Molecular Pathology
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX
Affiliation: Association for Molecular Pathology
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Oct 2002 – Oct 2003

Geraldine Cooper, B.Sc., MLT
Canadian Journal of Medical Laboratory, Member
Science Scientific Advisory Panel
Division of Microbiology, Department of Bacteriology
QEII Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Affiliation: Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Oct 2002 - Dec 2003

Daniel B. Woods, MLT, BSc MLS
British Columbia Society of Laboratory Medicine President (2004), Member of Scientific Advisory Panel for the Canadian Journal of Laboratory Science. Chief Technologist, Prince Rupert Regional Hospital, Prince Rupert, B.C. Canada
Affiliation: Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Feb – May 2004

Carlo Brugnara, MD
Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Director of the Hematology Laboratory
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston, MA
Affiliation: American Society of Hematology
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Jan – Dec 2004

David N. Sundwall, MD
American Clinical Laboratory Association, Senior Medical Advisor
Laboratory Health Care Coalition, Chair
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Policy Fellowship Advisory Board
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Jan 2001 - Dec 2004

Daniel H. Farkas, PhD, HCLD, FACB, CC, CLSp(MB)
Director, Molecular Diagnostics, Department of Pathology
The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York City
Affiliation: Association for Molecular Pathology
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Jun 2004 - Nov 2005

Mark M. Udden, MD
Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Affiliation: American Society of Hematology
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Jan - Dec 2005

James J. Miller, Ph.D., DABCC, FACB
Associate Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Affiliation: Clinical Ligand Assay Society
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Aug 2003 - Sep 2006

Henny Heisler Billett, MD
Professor, Clinical Medicine and Pathology
Einstein Hospital/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Affiliation: American Society of Hematology
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Jan - Dec 2006

Ronald H. Laessig, PhD
Director, State Laboratory of Hygiene
WI State Lab of Hygiene, Madison, WI
Affiliation: Association of Public Health Laboratories
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Nov 2005 - July 2007

John J. Zlockie, MBA
Vice President, Standards, Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
Affiliation: Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Aug 2002 - July 2007

Thomas L. Ortel, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine & Pathology
Hemostasis & Thrombosis Center
Duke University Health System, Durham, NC
Affiliation: American Society of Hematology
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Jan 2007 - Jan 2008

William J. Becker, DO MPH
Medical Director
Quest Diagnostics - Cincinnati Business Unit, Cincinnati, Ohio
Affiliation: Association of Public Health Laboratories
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: July 2007 - Dec 2008

Margaret Peck, MS, MT(ASCP)
Director, Laboratory Accreditation Program, JCAHO, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Affiliation: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: May 2005 - Apr 2008

Shirley L. Welch, PhD, DABCC, FACB
Director of Chemistry, Kaiser Permanente, NW, Portland, OR
Affiliation: American Association for Clinical Chemistry
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Jan 2001 - Dec 2009

Kenneth W. Simkowski, Sr., PhD, FACB
Technical Director Chemistry, Hematology, Endocrinology & Toxicology
Associated Clinical Laboratories, Erie, PA
Affiliation: Clinical Ligand Assay Society
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Sep 2006 - Dec 2009

Wayne Leslie Chandler, MD
Professor, Laboratory Medicine
University of Washington, Dept. of Laboratory Medicine, Seattle, WA
Affiliation: American Society of Hematology
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Jan 2008 - Dec 2009

Helen Fernandes, PhD, DABCC, HCLD, CLSp(MB)
Director, Molecular Diagnostics
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
New Jersey Medical School
Affiliation: Association for Molecular Pathology
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Jan 2006 - Dec 2009

Jean Amos Wilson, PhD FACMG, CGMB
Vice President, Laboratory Operations, Berkeley HeartLab, Inc.
Alameda, CA
Affiliation: Association for Molecular Pathology
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Jan 2010 - May 2010

Kathleen E. Steffens, MA, MT(ASCP)
Field Director, Accreditation and Certification Operations, Oak Brook Terrace, IL
Affiliation: The Joint Commission
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Mar 2009 - May 2011

Bette Jamieson, MEd, S.H. (ASCP)
Educational Coordinator, Pathology Department
Children's Hospital, Denver, CO
Affiliation: American Society for Clinical Pathology
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Aug 2002 - Oct 2011

Michael T. Kafka, MD, FCAP
St. Luke's Regional Medical Center
Pathology Medical Services of Siouxland, Sioux City, IA
Affiliation: College of American Pathologists
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Aug 2003 - Dec 2011

Jennifer Rhamy, MBA, MA, MT(ASCP)SBB, HP
Executive Director, Laboratory Accreditation Program
The Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Affiliation: The Joint Commission
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: June 2011 - Nov 2013

Roberta G. Reed, PhD, FACB
Independent Consultant, Phoenix, AZ
Affiliation: American Association for Clinical Chemistry
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Jan 2001 - Aug 2015

Eric Vanderslice, PhD
Technical Director, AAB Proficiency Testing Service, Houston, TX
Affiliation: American Association of Bioanalysts
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: Feb 2008 - Dec 2015

Holly Rapp, MT(ASCP)SBB, CQA(ASQ)CQM/OE
Director, Accreditation and Quality, Bethesda, MD
Affiliation: AABB
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: March 2007 - February 2016

Junell Petersen, MS, MLS(ASCP)^CMSH^CM
Laboratory Outreach Coordinator
Rice Memorial Hospital, Willmar, MN
Affiliation: American Society for Clinical Pathology
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: September 2014 - September 2016

Stacy Olea, MBA, MT(ASCP), FACHE
Executive Director, Laboratory Accreditation Program
Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Affiliation: The Joint Commission
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: August 2014 - November 2016

William E. Schreiber, MD
Consultant Pathologist, Vancouver General Hospital
Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Affiliation: American Society for Clinical Pathology
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: August 2002 - November 2016

Jean Otter, MT(ASCP)SBB
Vice President, Transfusion Medicine, Standards, Accreditation and Regulatory
Bethesda, MD
Affiliation: AABB
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: November 2005 - June 2017

Cheryl Murray, MPA, MT(ASCP) SM
Manager, AAFP-PT Education & Technical Assistance, Leawood, KS
Affiliation: American Academy of Family Physicians
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: March 2008 - December 2018

Carmen L. Wiley, PhD, DABCC
Chief Clinical Officer, Sanguine Technologies, Inc., Oakdale, MN
Affiliation: AACC
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: January 2009 - October 2018

Joseph Lutgring, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA
Affiliation: Infectious Diseases Society of America
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: October 2016 - July 2019

Anne Chenoweth, MBA, MT(ASCP)CM, CQA(ASQ)
Director, Accreditation and Quality, Bethesda, MD
Affiliation: AABB
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: March 2016 - September 2019

Ron S. Quicho, MS
Project Director, Department of Standards and Survey Methods
Strategic Business Unit Lead, Laboratory Accreditation
Division of Healthcare Quality Evaluation, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Affiliation: The Joint Commission
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: April 2017 - September 2019

James D. Faix, MD
Director of Chemistry and Immunology, Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx, NY
Affiliation: College of American Pathologists
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: December 2012 - December 2019