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1992.07.27 :  Advisory Committee -- Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act

Contact: CDC Press Office (404) 639-3286
July 27, 1992

       HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., today named the
members of a recently established Clinical Laboratory Improvement
Advisory Committee.  The committee will be chaired by Morton Kanter
Schwartz, Ph.D., chairman of the Department of Clinical Chemistry
at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.  
       The committee will provide scientific and technical guidance
to Secretary Sullivan and to Assistant Secretary for Health James
Mason, M.D., who heads the Public Health Service, concerning
clinical laboratory standards.  The Clinical Laboratory Improvement
Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) expanded the federal role in assuring
high quality laboratory performance.    
       Secretary Sullivan said, "HHS must take advantage of this
opportunity to improve laboratory performance and at the same time
preserve access to laboratory testing for all patients."
       The committee will provide guidance and make recommendations
regarding changes in the criteria for categorizing tests according
to complexity, quality control and quality assurance standards,
personnel standards and proficiency testing standards.
     Assistant Secretary Mason said, "It is important that we have
standards of laboratory performance that are in tune with new and
emerging technology.  We will look to the Clinical Laboratory
Improvement Advisory Committee for help in this aspect of
implementing the law."
     The members are:
SCHWARTZ, Morton Kanter, Ph.D., Chairman
Department of Clinical Chemistry
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

ABERCROMBIE, J. Scott, Jr., M.D.
President
University Hospital, Boston University Medical Center

BACHNER, Paul, M.D.
Chairman
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
United Hospital Medical Center
Port Chester, N.Y.

BEST, Michele Lynne
Director
Laboratory Quality Assurance and Human Resources
Department of Pathology
Washington Hospital Center
Washington, D.C.

CHARLES, Virginia Wall
Retired high school science teacher
Laurel, Md.

GAMBINO, S. Raymond, M.D.
Executive Vice President
MetPath, Inc.
Teterboro, N.J.

GARCIA, Lynne Shore
Manager
Clinical Microbiology, UCLA Medical Center
Laboratory Medicine
Los Angeles, Calif.

INHORN, Stanley Lee, M.D.
Medical Director
Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
Madison, Wis.

JOHNSON, Sandra Fells
Manager
Laboratory Information Center
Damon Clinical Laboratories
Berwyn, Ill.

KROGER, J. Stephen, M.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Commission on Office Laboratory Accreditation
Longmont, Colo.

LASKY, Fred Daniel, Ph.D.
Director
Government and Industry Relations
Clinical Products Division
Eastman Kodak Co.
Rochester, N.Y.

LUNDBERG, George David, M.D.
Editor
Journal of the American Medical Association
Chicago, Ill.

MATTHEWS, Kenneth Earl, M.D.
Pediatrician
University Pediatric Association
Bryan, Texas

McCURDY, Brenda Wright, Ph.D.
Section Chief of Microbiology
Veterans Administration Medical Center (113)
Allen Park, Mich.

NAKAMURA, Robert Motoharu, M.D.
Chairman
Department of Pathology
Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation
La Jolla, Calif.

O'NEAL, Wendell Reinard, Ph.D.
Clinical Science Associate
DuPont Medical Products
Newark, Del.

PIERRE, Robert Vernon, M.D.
Professor
Internal Medicine and Laboratory Medicine
Hematopathology Section
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minn.

RAY, Charles George, M.D.
Director
Diagnostic Virology and Microbiology Laboratories
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Wash.

ROSENTHAL, Dorothy Lynch, M.D.
Professor
Department of Pathology
School of Medicine
UCLA Center for the Health Sciences
Los Angeles, Calif.

ZABRANSKY, Ronald Joseph, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pathology
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Galveston, Texas


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