WASHINGTON, July 2, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- The Association for Diagnostics &
Laboratory Medicine (ADLM, formerly AACC) is pleased to announce
that Paul Jannetto, PhD, DABCC,
FADLM, MT(ASCP), has been elected to serve on the ADLM board of
directors as president-elect starting in August 2024. Following this, he will serve
successive terms as the association's president from August
2025-July 2026 and as past president
from August 2026-July 2027. In
addition, the ADLM membership elected two new directors to the
association's board. They will take office in August 2024 along with the incoming president of
the Academy of Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine and the
incoming chair of the ADLM Clinical Laboratory Scientists Council,
both of whom will also serve on the board.
"It is an honor and a privilege to be elected to serve as the
president-elect of ADLM," said Dr. Jannetto. "In this role, I plan
to focus on driving ADLM's advocacy efforts forward and continuing
to educate policymakers and payors about the value of laboratory
medicine and to ensure its accessibility for everyone. It is also
my goal to promote the field of laboratory medicine as a career in
an effort to alleviate the staffing shortages that clinical labs
are facing. Overall, I am excited to work with ADLM's leadership,
staff, and members to provide the resources that laboratory
medicine professionals need to continue to do what they do best:
provide vital insights so that patients get the care they
need."
Dr. Jannetto is a professor in the department of laboratory
medicine and pathology and a consultant at the Mayo Clinic in
Rochester, Minnesota. At Mayo, he
also serves as the co-director for the clinical mass spectrometry
laboratory, clinical and forensic toxicology laboratory, and the
metals laboratory and as the vice chair of supply chain management
for the department of laboratory medicine and pathology. Dr.
Jannetto is actively involved with ADLM and has held numerous
association positions at the national level, including on the ADLM
board of directors, Academy of Diagnostics & Laboratory
Medicine board of directors, and the Governance Review Advisory
Task Force.
ADLM BOARD MEMBERS
Mark A. Cervinski, PhD, DABCC,
FADLM, and Jane Dickerson, PhD,
DABCC, will serve as members of ADLM's board of directors from
August 2024-July 2027. Qing H. Meng,
MD, PhD, DABCC, FADLM, will also serve on the board from August
2024-July 2025 as president of the
Academy of Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine, the association's
home for distinguished laboratory experts who shape science in the
field. Additionally, Reid Rosehill,
MD, MLS (ASCP)CM, will serve on the board from August
2024-July 2027 as chair of the
Clinical Laboratory Scientists Council, which guides ADLM's
activities and programs to address the professional needs of ADLM's
clinical laboratory scientist members.
Dr. Cervinski is medical director of clinical chemistry and
point-of-care testing at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in
Lebanon, New Hampshire. He also
serves as associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine
and as director of the clinical chemistry fellowship program at the
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
College. He has served ADLM in various capacities for the
past 15 years.
Dr. Dickerson is division head of lab medicine, director of the
core lab, director of reference lab services, and the CLIA medical
director at the North Clinic at Seattle Children's Hospital. She is
also an associate professor at the University
of Washington and a co-founder and director of clinical
services for PLUGS (Patient-centered Laboratory Utilization
Guidance Services), a national collaboration whose mission is to
improve test ordering, retrieval, interpretation, and
reimbursement. An ADLM member for more than 10 years, she has
contributed to the organization in a variety of ways, including as
a member of the ADLM finance committee when it was first formed in
2016.
ADLM NOMINATING COMMITTEE
ADLM's membership has also elected Stacy
Melanson, MD, PhD; Robert D.
Nerenz, PhD, DABCC, FADLM; and Amy
L. Pyle-Eilola, PhD, DABCC, FADLM, to serve from August
2024-July 2027 on the association's
nominating committee. The ADLM nominating committee carries out the
important task of ensuring that the association's leadership
comprises a diverse and highly talented group of individuals who
represent the full breadth of ADLM's membership.
Dr. Melanson is vice chair of the clinical laboratories at
Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, associate clinical director of Mass
General Brigham Enterprise Laboratory Services, and associate
professor of pathology at Harvard Medical
School.
Dr. Nerenz is an associate professor in the department of
pathology and laboratory medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and a co-director of
clinical chemistry at Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratories in
Milwaukee.
Dr. Pyle-Eilola is clinical chemistry director at Nationwide
Children's Hospital and associate professor of pathology and
laboratory medicine at The Ohio State
University in Columbus.
About the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory
Medicine (ADLM)
Dedicated to achieving better health through laboratory
medicine, ADLM (formerly AACC) brings together more than 70,000
clinical laboratory professionals, physicians, research scientists,
and business leaders from around the world focused on clinical
chemistry, molecular diagnostics, mass spectrometry, translational
medicine, lab management, and other areas of progressing laboratory
science. Since 1948, ADLM has worked to advance the common
interests of the field, providing programs that advance scientific
collaboration, knowledge, expertise, and innovation. For more
information, visit www.myadlm.org.
Christine DeLong
ADLM
Associate Director, Communications & PR
(p) 202.835.8722
cdelong@myadlm.org
Molly Polen
ADLM
Senior Director, Communications & PR
(p) 202.420.7612
(c) 703.598.0472
mpolen@myadlm.org
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