Paul J. Jannetto, PhD, DABCC, FADLM, AACC Secretary, has announced the slate of candidates selected by the Nominating Committee for the 2021 AACC elections. The Nominating Committee identifies a single candidate for each open officer and Board position and more candidates than open positions for the Nominating Committee. The online election process will run May 1-31, 2021, and the membership will have the opportunity to vote for or against each candidate on the single-candidate slate and to elect three members to the Nominating Committee through a plurality vote.
The candidates and positions are:
President-Elect
Shannon Haymond, PhD, DABCC, FADLM; vice chair, computational pathology; director, clinical mass spectrometry laboratory; director of laboratory research services; co-director, biorepository; department of pathology and laboratory medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
Board of Directors
Joe M. El-Khoury, PhD, DABCC, FADLM; director of clinical chemistry at Yale-New Haven Health; associate professor of laboratory medicine at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Bonny L. Van, PhD, FADLM, HCLD(ABB); senior consultant, J Michael Consulting, Roswell, Georgia.
Nominating Committee
Linnea Baudhuin, PhD, FACMG, DABMGG; professor of laboratory medicine and pathology, division of laboratory genetics and genomics, department of laboratory medicine and pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
Roger L. Bertholf, PhD, DABCC, FADLM, MASCP; medical director of clinical chemistry, Houston Methodist Hospital; professor of clinical pathology and laboratory medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine.
Mark Cervinski, PhD, DABCC; associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth; director of clinical chemistry, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Dennis J. Dietzen, PhD, DABCC, FADLM; professor of pathology and immunology, Washington University School of Medicine; medical director, laboratory services, St. Louis Children's Hospital.
Robert Fitzgerald, PhD, DABCC (CC and CT), FADLM, NRCC; professor of pathology; director of clinical toxicology laboratory; associate director of clinical chemistry laboratory; University of California, San Diego.
Khushbu Patel, PhD, DABCC; director of clinical chemistry and point of care, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.