Spokespersons

To speak to the spokespeople below, contact the ASCP's communications department.

• C. Bruce Alexander, MD, FASCP

  ASCP President, Executive Committee, ASCP Board of Directors Professor and Vice Chair of Pathology and Pathology Program Director, University of Alabama Medical School, Birmingham Birmingham, Ala. Expertise: Forensic medicine, pulmonary diseases, graduate training of pathologists and laboratory professionals

• Mark A. Bailey, MA, HTL(ASCP)^CM

  Member, Council of Laboratory Professionals; Chair, Scholarship Committee Histotechnology Program Director at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Expertise: Histotechnology

• Kathleen Becan-McBride, EdD, MLS(ASCP)^CM

  Past Chair, ASCP Board of Certification Board of Governors; Member, International Commission Director of Community Outreach & Education, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston Expertise: Phlebotomy/blood collection for patient safety

• Andrea Bennett, MPH, MT(ASCP)

  ASCP Senior Program Manager for Public Policy, Washington, DC Expertise: Policy workforce

• Lucia M. Berte, MA, MT(ASCP)SBB,DLM; CQA(ASQ)CMQ

  LABMEDICINE Advisory Board President, Laboratories Made Better! P.C. Broomfield, Col. Expertise: Laboratory quality management, transfusion medicine

• Susan R. Besaw, MBA, MASCP, SCT(ASCP)

  LABMEDICINE Advisory Board Member, International Commission; Membership Commission Director of Customer Service, Plus Diagnostics Union, N.J. Expertise: Lab management, workforce shortages, pre- and post-analytical testing

• Karen A. Brown, MS, MLS(ASCP)^CM

  LABMEDICINE Advisory Board Member, Membership Commission; Consulting Member, Scholarship Committee; Board of Certification (BOC) Board of Governors, Commission on Continuing Professional Development Professor of Clinical Pathology at the University of Utah Salt Lake City Expertise: Blood disease and disorder, laboratory management

• Lynnette G. Chakkaphak, MS, MT(ASCP)

  Chair, Membership Commission; Member, ASCP Board of Directors; Past Chair, Council of Laboratory Professionals System Laboratory Director, St. Vincent’s Healthcare Jacksonville, Fla. Expertise: Immunology, microbiology, laboratory management, medical technology education

• Kathleen (Kay) M. Doyle, PhD, MLS(ASCP)^CM

  Chair, Communications Committee; Member, Institute Advisory Committee; Member, Membership Commission; Member, Awards Committee Education Program Director, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Lowell, Mass. Expertise: Blood banking, cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, laboratory staffing shortage

• Jo Anne B. Edwards, MEd, MLS(ASCP)^CM

  Consultant, Public Policy Commission; Member, Nominations Committee Reno, Nev. Expertise: Laboratory management, laboratory coding, phlebotomy

• William G. Finn, MD, FASCP
  ASCP Secretary, Executive Committee, ASCP Board of Directors; Past Chair, Membership Commission
  Medical Director of Warde Medical Laboratory
  Ann Arbor, Mich.
  Expertise: Blood disease, laboratory technology & equipment
• David W. Glenn, MASCP, MLS(ASCP)^CM

  Immediate Past Chair Communications Committee; Member, Membership Commission, Governance Task Force CEO, Pathology Services, P.C. North Platte, Neb. Expertise: Laboratory staffing shortage, recruitment, retention, and qualified testing personnel

• Teresa Y. Harris, MT(ASCP)SBB^CM

  Immediate Past Chair, Council of Laboratory Professionals; Member, Membership Commission; Member, Communications Committee; Member,Teleconference Committee; Governance Task Force Winthrop, Wash. Expertise: Transfusion medicine/blood bank

• Steven H. Kroft, MD, FASCP

  ASCP Vice President, Executive Committee, ASCP Board of Directors; Past Chair, Commission on Continuing Professional Development; Member, Governance Task Force Professor of Pathology and Director of Hematopathology, Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and Froedtert Hospital/Dynacare Laboroatories; Director, Hematopathology Fellowhip Program; Associate Director, Pathology Residency Program, (MCW) Milwaukee, Wis. Expertise: Blood diseases, bone marrow pathology, lymphoma, flow cytometry

• Irina Lutinger, MPH, MASCP, H(ASCP)DLM, FACHE

  Member, ASCP Board of Directors; Chair, International Commission; Member, Communications Committee; Member, By-Laws Committee Senior Administrative and Director of Clinical Labs, NYU Langone Medical Center New York Expertise: Information technology, laboratory automation, laboratory staffing shortage

• Barbara J. McKenna, MD, FASCP

  Past ASCP President; AJCP Editorial Board Reviewer; Member, Annual Meeting Steering Committee Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School; Director of the Surgical Pathology Fellowship Program, and attending physician, University of Michigan Hospitals Ann Arbor, Mich. Expertise: Gastrointestinal pathology, liver pathology, residency and fellowship training in pathology, pathologist certification and maintenance of certification

• Anna M. Moran, MD, FASCP

  Past Chair, ASCP Fellow Council; Member, Membership Commission; Member, Reference Publications Committee Staff Pathologist, Pennsylvania Presbyterian Medical Center Philadelphia Expertise: Cytopathology, anatomic pathology: breast cancer, lung cancer, molecular cytopathology

• Junell M. Petersen, MS, MLS(ASCP)^CM,SH^CM

  Past Chair, Council of Laboratory Professionals; Member, Public Policy Commission; Member, Nominations Committee; Member, Awards Committee Laboratory Outreach Coordinator, Rice Memorial Hospital Willmar, Minn. Expertise: Direct access laboratory testing, laboratory personnel licensure, laboratory regulations

• Shilpa Rungta, MD

  Clinical Lecturer, University of Michigan Health Systems Ann Arbor, Mich. Expertise: Breast pathology and ob/gyn pathology

• Ossama W. Tawfik, MD, PhD, FASCP

  Member, Communications Committee, Member, Fellow Council Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Vice-Chairman for Education and Outreach, and Director of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City Expertise: Breast pathology

• John E. Tomaszewski, MD, FASCP

  Immediate Past ASCP President, Executive Committee, ASCP Board of Directors; Chair, Nominations Committee; Member, Institute Advisory Committee Pathology and Anatomical Science, Chair Designate, The State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Buffalo, N.Y. Expertise: Genitourinary, immuno, and kidney pathology, transplant pathology

• Eric Yee, MD

  Member, Communications Committee; Past Resident Representative Resident in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Med Center—Harvard Medical School, Boston Expertise: Medical education, pathology workforce issues

• M. Sue Zaleski, MA, SCT(ASCP)HT

  Chair, Council of Laboratory Professionals; Executive Committee; Member, Commission on Membership Laboratory Manager, Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City Expertise: HPV/pap issues, lab workforce shortages

To speak to the spokespeople above, contact the ASCP's communications department.