Consultant Hematologist, King Saud Board in Hematology.
Subspecialty in Stem Cell Transplantation and Cord Blood Banking, King’s College Hospital, London, UK.
General Manager of Al Borg Medical Laboratories.
She is associate director of the clinical chemistry fellowship program and is actively involved in training fellows, pathology residents, and allied laboratory health staff. Her doctoral research for her degree in analytical chemistry from the University of Minnesota focused on mutations in acyl-CoA dehydrogenase enzymes. During her clinical chemistry fellowship training at the University of Washington her research expanded to include novel risk markers for oxidative stress and development of new testing using liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. At the Mayo Clinic, her research has focused on cardiac biomarkers such as troponin and natriuretic peptides, as well as novel biomarkers for the detection of oxidative and cardiovascular stress, damage, and heart failure.
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Joe El Khoury
Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine at Yale University
Joe El-Khoury, Ph.D., DABCC, FAACC is Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine at Yale University and Co-Director of the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory and Clinical Chemistry Fellowship program at Yale-New Haven Health.
Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez
Chair of the Division of Molecular Diagnostics, in the Department of Pathology at the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez, Ph.D. is Chair of the Division of Molecular Diagnostics, in the Department of Pathology at the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System in July 2008. She is also the director of the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory at the VCU Health System.
Christopher McCudden
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Ottawa
Dr. Christopher McCudden, Ph.D., DABCC, FAACC, FCACB, Dr. McCudden is a Clinical Chemist at the Ottawa Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.