Paul J. Jannetto, PhD, DABCC, FADLM, AACC Secretary, has announced the slate of candidates selected by the Nominating Committee for the 2023 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, 2023, 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
Anthony Killeen, MB, BCh, PhD, MSc; professor; director of clinical laboratories, University of Minnesota Medical Center (Adult Hospital), Minneapolis
Secretary
Christopher McCudden, PhD; clinical biochemist; vice chair, department of pathology and laboratory medicine, University of Ottawa; deputy chief medical and scientific officer, Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association; clinical biochemist, division of biochemistry, department of pathology and laboratory medicine, The Ottawa Hospital; associate professor, department of pathology and laboratory medicine, University of Ottawa, division of biochemistry, The Ottawa Hospital; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Board of Directors
Christina M. Lockwood, PhD; professor of laboratory medicine and pathology; adjunct professor of genome sciences, University of Washington, Seattle
Laura Parnas, PhD, DABCC, FADLM; disease area network lead, cardiometabolism and neurology, medical and scientific affairs, Roche Diagnostics Corporation, Indianapolis
Nominating Committee
Mark A. Cervinski, PhD; medical director of clinical chemistry and point-of-care testing, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medicine Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
Sue Evans, PhD; principal/founder, BioDecisions Consulting, Los Gatos, California
Angela Ferguson, PhD, DABCC, FADLM; co-director, chemistry labs; director, immunology; director, point-of-care testing, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri
Deborah French, PhD, DABCC, FADLM; assistant director of chemistry; director of mass spectrometry, UCSF Clinical Laboratories, San Francisco
Robert Nerenz, PhD; associate professor; co-director of clinical chemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
James H. Nichols, PhD, DABCC, FADLM; professor of pathology, microbiology, and immunology; medical director, clinical chemistry and point-of-care testing, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
Nicole V. Tolan, PhD, DABCC; assistant professor of pathology, Harvard Medical School; co-medical director, clinical chemistry laboratory, medical director, mass spectrometry and point-of-care testing, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; CLIA laboratory and medical director, Mass General Brigham Home Care; Boston