Barbara Goldsmith, PhD, Global Affairs Core Committee chair, serves as Clinical Professor and Director of Laboratories, Director of Point-of-Care Testing and Quality Management in the Department of Pathology and Genomics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College and Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences and Biotechnology, College of Health Professions at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. She has served as the Scientific Director of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Laboratories in multiple hospital and academic settings. She is the Past President of the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (formerly AACC) and the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry (which is now known as the Academy of Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine). Her areas of interest include clinical chemistry, point-of-care testing, and quality management.
Tony Badrick AM, MBA, PhD(QUT), PhD(UQ)(, FRCPA (Hon), FFSc(RCPA) is the CEO of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Quality Assurance Programs; Adjunct Professor School of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Griffith University, Honorary Associate Professor, National Centre for Epidemiology and Public Health ANU College of Health and Medicine and ANU College of Science, Honorary Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Visiting Fellow, Australian Institute for Health Innovation, Macquarie University. He is President of the Asian Pacific Federation of Clinical Biochemistry and the Chief Examiner of the Faculty of Science of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia.
Kayode Balogun, PhD, DABCC, FADLM, is the Director of Clinical Chemistry and Immunology at the Montefiore Medical Center, and an Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, NY.
William Clarke, PhD, MBA, DABCC, FADLM is a Professor of Pathology, Director of Clinical Chemistry, and Vice-Chair of Pathology for Quality and Regulatory Affairs at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Jose C. Jara-Aguirre, M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Pediatric Department at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at The George Washington University and Medical Director of Core Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, Special Chemistry and Point of Care at Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC.
Verónica I. Luzzi, Ph.D., MS, DABCC, FACB is Section Chief and Medical Director at the Tricore Research Institute, and Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Elia Mears, MS, MLS( ASCP)SM is a Laboratory Surveyor in the Laboratory Accreditation Program for Joint Commission.
Olajumoke Oladipo, MD, DABCC, FADLM is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Lab. Medicine, Vice Chair for Quality and Safety (Clinical Pathology), Med. Director, Benign Hematology & Coagulation and Associate Medical Director, Automated Testing Laboratory at the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania
Aleksei (Alex) Tikhonov, MSc, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow at Gustave Roussy, France, and an independent scientific consultant.
Nico Vandepoele, BSc, is the global product manager for the Quality Systems informatics solutions at Bio-Rad Laboratories.