President’s Update Victor Waddell, PhD President, CLSI Bureau Chief, Arizona State Public Health Laboratory
Leadership
2022 Board of Directors Composed of a balanced representation from government, industry, and the health care professions, the CLSI Board of Directors is dedicated to maintaining the integrity of the voluntary consensus process, promoting quality medical testing and health care services, and fulfilling the CLSI mission.
As I reflect on CLSI’s 2022 fiscal year, it’s hard to not mention one word—transition. When the fiscal year kicked off, the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was sweeping the world. Then, as the fiscal year came to a close in June, we held our first ever hybrid meeting—a transition to a new way of gathering. CLSI has also gone through a leadership transition this year. Glen Fine retired from his role as CLSI’s CEO after 17 years. Under Glen’s leadership, CLSI dramatically increased its global relevance and significantly improved the quality of laboratory medicine for laboratorians and patients around the world. Glen’s dedication and commitment has made CLSI a highly respected organization globally. However, as they say, with great change comes great opportunity. At the end of this fiscal year, CLSI ushered in a new era under the leadership of Barb Jones, PhD. Barb is well positioned to build on our mission and lead CLSI successfully into the future. She has an excellent track record of success as a consensus builder, with leadership experience in government, industry, and health care. I look forward to working with her to continue to move CLSI forward. During the 2022 fiscal year, membership remained a strong contributor to our mission. Over 24,000 individuals from 75 different countries have access to CLSI standards and products through their memberships. Our members not only support document development in the short term, but their membership ensures that CLSI has the means and infrastructure for standards development in the future. Our standards development and promotional efforts continued to drive our mission— last year CLSI published more than 25 standards and related products. In addition, more than 10,000 people participated in expert-led webinars and online learning courses. Working together with our CLSI volunteer experts, CLSI staff are supporting 96 products currently in development, fulfilling our mission to develop critical standards for the medical laboratory community. In addition to these development efforts, CLSI worked to successfully promote standards and laboratory quality worldwide, with programs in Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and the Caribbean, and has recently been designated a non-state actor by WHO’s Pan-Americas Region. This designation allows us to bring our mission to Latin America as never before. Given all that we have accomplished in fiscal year 2022, The Board of Directors and I are excited for the year ahead and will be working closely with Barb and her leadership team to secure the legacy of CLSI for generations to come.
Officers
Victor Waddell, PhD President Arizona State Public Health Laboratory James H. Nichols, PhD, DABCC, FAACC President-Elect Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Joseph Passarelli Secretary Roche Diagnostics
Carl D. Mottram Immediate Past President Independent Consultant Barb Jones, PhD Chief Executive Officer CLSI
Rick Panning, MBA, MLS(ASCP) CM Treasurer ARUP Laboratories
Directors
Leonthena R. Carrington, MBA, MT(ASCP) FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Gary W. Procop, MD, MS American Board of Pathology
Dennis J. Ernst, MT(ASCP) Independent Consultant
Andrew Quintenz Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
Collette Fitzgerald, PhD Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Susan Sharp, PhD, D(ABMM), F(AMM) Copan Diagnostics, Inc. Paula M. Snippes Vagnone, MT(ASCP) Minnesota Department of Health
Randall T. Hayden, MD St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Loralie J. Langman, PhD, DABCC, FACB, F-ABFT Mayo Clinic
Barbara L. Zimmer, PhD Beckman Coulter, Inc.
Tania Motschman, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB Independent Consultant
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