ADLM announces 2025 election candidates

Christopher McCudden, PhD, DABCC, FACB, FCACB, ADLM secretary, has announced the slate of candidates for the 2025 ADLM elections. These outstanding candidates were selected by the 2024-2025 ADLM Nominating Committee from many highly qualified nominees. The Nominating Committee is tasked with identifying 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 take place May 1-31, 2025. 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

Stanley F. Lo, PhD, DABCC, FADLM; professor, department of pathology & laboratory medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin and associate director of clinical laboratories at Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Treasurer

Frederick Strathmann, MS, MBA, PhD, DABCC; senior vice president, global business, MOBILion Systems, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and CLIA laboratory director and clinical consultant, Smithers Pharmaceutical Development Services and QPS, LLC.

Board of Directors

Nam Tran, PhD, MS, MAS, HCLD (ABB), CLS, MLS (ASCP)^cm, FADLM; professor and senior director of clinical pathology, UC Davis Health; director, pathology biorepository and co-director/co-founder, UC Davis Center for Diagnostic Innovation (CDxI), Sacramento, California.

Melanie Yarbrough, PhD; associate professor, department of pathology and immunology, Washington University School of Medicine; medical director, clinical microbiology, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri.

Nominating Committee

Sean Campbell, PhD, DABCC, FADLM; assistant professor, department of pathology; co-director, chemistry and immunology laboratories, Moses Division, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.

Steven Cotten, PhD, DABCC, FADLM; associate professor, department of pathology and laboratory medicine, The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill; director of automated chemistry and critical care testing, UNC Medical Center; CLIA laboratory director, UNC Health Chatham Park, UNC Health Children’s Raleigh Clinic, UNC Campus Health, and NC State University Campus Health.

Saswati Das, MD; assistant professor and senior specialist, Maulana Azad Medical College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.

Mark Marzinke, PhD, DABCC, FADLM; professor, departments of pathology and medicine (clinical pharmacology), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Baltimore, Maryland.

Jeffrey Meeusen, PhD; co-director, clinical core laboratory services, department of laboratory medicine and pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

Xander van Wijk, PhD, DABCC, FADLM; associate clinical professor, department of laboratory medicine and clinical chemistry director, UCSF Health, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

Maria Willrich, PhD; consultant for the division of clinical biochemistry and immunology, department of laboratory medicine and pathology, Mayo Clinic and associate professor of laboratory medicine and pathology - Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science; Rochester, Minnesota.