Dustin R. Bunch received his bachelors in Biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University and is currently a Senior Research Technologist in Clinical Pathology at the Cleveland Clinic (CCF) and a graduate student in the Clinical and Bioanalytical Chemistry program at Cleveland State University. His major duties involve managing the research team and performing development and validation of liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) methods. He has authored or co-authored 10 peer-reviewed publications and 24 meeting abstracts and has been a member of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) since 2008. Upon completion of his PhD, Dustin plans to join a Commission on Accreditation in Clinical Chemistry (ComACC) approved post-doctoral fellowship program in clinical chemistry. He currently serves as the Internet Coordinator and the Continuing Education Chair for Northeast Ohio Section AACC.