Paul J. Jannetto, PhD, DABCC, FADLM, AACC Secretary, has announced the slate of candidates selected by the Nominating Committee for the 2022 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 itself. The online election process will run May 1-31, 2022, 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
Octavia M. Peck Palmer, PhD, FADLM; associate professor, departments of pathology, critical care medicine, clinical, and translational science, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; division director, clinical chemistry; medical director, automated testing laboratories, UPMC Presbyterian and Shadyside; assistant medical director, automated testing laboratories, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC; Pittsburgh
Treasurer
Victoria Zhang, PhD, MBA, DABCC, FADLM; vice chair for clinical enterprise strategy; director of clinical chemistry division; associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine; University of Rochester Medical Center; Rochester, New York
Board of Directors
Daniel T. Holmes, BSc, MD, FRCPC; clinical professor, department of pathology and laboratory medicine, University of British Columbia; St. Paul’s Hospital; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Stanley F. Lo, PhD; professor, department of pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin; associate director, clinical laboratories, Children's Wisconsin; Milwaukee
Nominating Committee
Robert Fitzgerald, PhD, DABCC (CC and CT), FAACB, NRCC; professor of pathology; director of clinical toxicology laboratory; associate director of clinical chemistry laboratory; director of clinical chemistry ComACC program; University of California San Diego; San Diego
Nichole Korpi-Steiner, PhD, DABCC, FADLM; associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine; director, special chemistry lab; medical director, point-of-care testing and ambulatory care center lab; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Nathalie Lepage, PhD, FCACB, FCCMG; laboratory head, biochemistry laboratory, Newborn Screening Ontario; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Stacy E. Melanson, MD, PhD; director, clinical laboratories, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Boston
Robert Nerenz, PhD; associate director of clinical chemistry, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; Lebanon, New Hampshire
Kalen (Olson) Nissen, PhD, DABCC, FADLM; director of medical affairs and medical officer, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics; Walpole, Massachusetts
Carmen L. Wiley, PhD, DABCC, FADLM; clinical medical director, Incyte Diagnostics; medical director, Providence Inland Northwest Washington; Spokane, Washington