Dr. Ashwood is a professor of pathology at the University of Utah and president and chief executive office of ARUP Laboratories in Salt Lake City. Dr. Ashwood has been active at the local and national levels of the AACC since 1981. Locally, he served as legislative liaison and as chair of the Rocky Mountain Section. He has lectured at a dozen local section meetings, receiving the first prize for research at the 1987 Rocky Mountain Section annual meeting. Nationally, Dr. Ashwood has been a member of the contributed papers committee, nominating committee, A. O. Beckman conference committee, meetings management group, and annual meeting organizing committee. He has led 20 round-table discussions and delivered 10 platform lectures at annual meetings. He has received 11 AACC outstanding speaker awards. Dr. Ashwood has mentored more than 100 University of Utah pathology residents and fellows. The pathology residents have twice honored him with the outstanding teaching award in clinical pathology. He directed the residency program for seven years. For the College of American Pathologists, Dr. Ashwood has served on the informatics, chemistry, instrumentation, biochemical, and molecular genetics committees. Dr. Ashwood’s research in fetal lung maturity tests and standardization in clinical chemistry has resulted in more than 150 scientific papers, chapters, letters, and abstracts in journals that include Clinical Chemistry, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and He has assisted Dr. Carl Burtis in editing seven revisions of the Tietz Textbook/Fundamentals of Clinical Chemistry.