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Edward Wong FCAP is Medical Director, Coagulation, Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute; Adjunct Associate Professor in Pediatrics and Pathology, George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Clinical Consultant at Children's National Hospital in the Divisions of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; and Hematology, Washington DC, USA Dennis J. Dietzen, PhD, is Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine and Medical Director of Laboratories at St. Louis Children's Hospital. He received a B.S. from Marian College in Indianapolis and his Ph.D. from Indiana University. He completed a fellowship in Clinical Chemistry at Washington University in 1995 then served as Development Chemist at the former DuPont Diagnostics and Medical Director of Clinical Laboratories at the Memphis Veterans Affairs Hospital before returning to St. Louis. Dr. Dietzen is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research, the Society for Inborn Metabolic Disorders, and the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists. He received the AACC Award for Outstanding Contributions to Pediatric Clinical Chemistry in 2012 and served as AACC President in 2018. Dr. Dietzen serves on the Editorial Board for Clinical Biochemistry and Critical Review in Clinical Laboratory Science and serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Dietzen's current research interests focus on mass spectrometry applications in pediatrics including drug screening, rapid detection of metabolic disease, liver failure, pre-eclampsia, and neonatal hypoglycemia. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, monographs, editorials, and book chapters on these and other subjects. Dr. Bennett obtained his PhD in Medical Enzymology from the University of Sheffield School of Medicine (UK) in 1976. He has been actively engaged in Clinical Chemistry since 1975 and has practiced primarily in Children's Hospitals (Sheffield Children's Hospital, Children's Medical Center of Dallas and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where until his recent retirement he was Chief of Laboratory Medicine) where he developed a clinical and research interest in biochemical genetic diseases. He has published 285 peer-reviewed scientific papers and 53 book chapters, reviews and editorials. He has lectured extensively in the field of pediatric laboratory medicine. He is a Past-President, Treasurer and Board of Directors Member of AACC and Past President of the NACB (now the Academy of AACC) and past-chair of the Pediatric-Maternal Fetal and Metabolomics-Proteomics Divisions of AACC. He has numerous awards for his research and clinical service. He is an Associate Editor for Clinical Chemistry Journal and has sat on the editorial boards of Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, Journal of Inherited Metabolic Diseases and Molecular Genetics and Metabolism. Shannon Haymond is the Vice Chair for Computational Pathology; Director, Mass Spectrometry, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago; Associate Professor of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, IL, USA |
