Medical Review Board
The Lab Tests Online Medical Review Board is made up of experts from the clinical laboratory profession and other health professions. Members of the Medical Review Board have contributed to the development and review of all scientific core content on the website. Other laboratory professionals as well as experts in a particular field have been consulted at times to assist the Medical Review Board in the review of content. These individuals are acknowledged in the Sources section of the article they review. Editorial decisions are made by the Medical Review Board and Lab Tests Online staff and are independent of any funding considerations.
David Alter, MD, FAACC
Associate Professor, Director, Clinical Chemistry
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Emory University Hospital
Roberta B. Carey, PhD, D (ABMM), CMQ/OE (ASQ)
Former Director of Laboratory Quality Management Program
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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.
D. Robert Dufour, MD
Adjunct Professor of Pathology, Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Meredith Eller, MBA, MT(ASCP)SBBCM, CQA(ASQ)
Technical Specialist, Accreditation and Quality, AABB
Thomas Kampfrath, PhD, DABCC
Medical Officer, Laboratory Diagnostics
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
This activity is being performed by Thomas Kampfrath in his private capacity.
Anthony Kurec, MS, MASCP, MLT(ASCP), H, DLM
Clinical Associate Professor, Emeritus
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Chuanyi Mark Lu, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair
UCSF Department of Laboratory Medicine
Director, Clinical Laboratories, San Francisco VA Healthcare System
Mary M. Mayo, PhD, BCLD(ABB), DABCC, FAACC, MT(ASCP)
IVDR Consultant, Beckman Coulter, Inc.,
Laboratory Director, Heartland Women’s Healthcare
Elizabeth Palavecino, MD
Professor of Pathology
Director, Clinical Microbiology
Co-Director, Clinical and Translational Mass Spectrometry Center
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Elissa Passiment, EdM, CLS
ASCLS, Executive Vice President Emeritus
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Rutgers University, School of Health Professions
Department of Clinical Laboratory and Medical Imaging Services
Michael A. Pentella, PhD, D(ABMM)
Director, State Hygienic Laboratory
Clinical Professor, University of Iowa, College of Public Health
Keith Steinbach, MLT, CACE, MS (IPT), LSSBB
Educator, Edmonton Zone
Alberta Precision Laboratories
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Michelle Strecker, MS, LCGC
Genetic Counselor
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
Jill S. Warrington, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Robert Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont
Laboratory Director, Averhealth
Acting CLIA Director, Vermont Department of Health Laboratory
Emeritus
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
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)CMSHCM
Laboratory Outreach Coordinator
Rice Memorial Hospital, Willmar, MN
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
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
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
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: August 2016 – July 2020
Sharon S. Master, PhD
Independent Consultant
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Affiliation: Association of Public Health Laboratories
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: June 2010 – December 2020
Christine Schimpf BS, MT (ASCP)
AAFP Proficiency Testing Program Manager
Leawood, KS
Affiliation: American Academy of Family Physicians
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: April 2018 – December 2020
Mary Lowery Nordberg, PhD, CLSp(CG, MB)
Willis-Knighton Cancer Center
Shreveport, LA
Affiliation: Association for Molecular Pathology
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: June 2010 – January 2021
Patrick St. Louis, PhD, Dip CC
Clinical Chemist
LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Affiliation: Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: January 2003 – January 2021
Christine Snozek, PhD, DABCC, FAACC
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
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: August 2018 – April 2021
Barbara A. Karczeski, MS, CGC, MA
Genetic Counselor / Clinical Policy Analyst,
eviCORE Healthcare
Baltimore, MD
Affiliation: National Society of Genetic Counselors
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: June 2017 – April 2021
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
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: May 2017 – April 2021
Shawna Swaffar, BS, MT (ASCP), CLS (NCA)
AAFP-PT Technical Operations Specialist
Leawood, KS
Affiliation: American Academy of Family Physicians
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: April 2018 – April 2021
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
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: July 2018 – May 2021
Kathy Nucifora, MPH, MT(ASCP)
Chief Operating Officer, COLA
Columbia, MD
Affiliation: COLA
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: April 2016 – May 2021
Raquel M. Martinez, PhD, D(ABMM)
System and Core Lab Director
Clinical and Molecular Microbiology
Geisinger
Danville, PA
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: July 2018 – May 2021
Brooke M. Katzman, PhD
Co-Director, Hospital Clinical Laboratory and Point of Care Testing
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Affiliation: AACC
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: October 2018 – May 2021
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
Affiliation: CLSI
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: July 2007 – August 2021
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
Lab Tests Online Editorial Board Service: January 2017 – August 2021