Joely Straseski, PhD, MT(ASCP), DABCC, FADLM received her PhD in pathology and laboratory medicine and a master of science in bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical chemistry at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the section chief of clinical chemistry and medical director of endocrinology and automated core laboratories at ARUP Laboratories, a national reference laboratory in Salt Lake City, Utah.