NCCLS Notes

The NCCLS Area Committee on Automation met at LabAutomation '97 to discuss their plan to create and promote standards in clinical laboratory automation. The following officers, members, advisors, and observers have been appointed to this committee:

Area Committee on Automation

• Chairholder: Rodney S. Markin, M.D., Ph.D., University of Nebraska Medical Center, LabInterlink, Inc.

• Board Liason: Charles F. Galanaugh, Becton Dickinson (retired)

• Members: Stanley Bauer, M.D., Beth Israel Medical Center

  Charles S. Furfine, Ph.D., FDA Ctr. For Devices/ Rad. Health

  David Herold, M.D., Ph.D., VA Medical Center, San Diego

  Gary W. Kramer, Ph.D.National Institute of Stds. & Technology

  Paul J. Mountain, M.Sc., M.T. (ASCP)MDS Laboratories

  David O'Bryan, Ph.D. Smith Kline Beecham Clinical Laboratories

  Stephen R. Savitz, Becton Dickinson VACUTAINER Systems

  Richard B. Coolen, Ph.D., Johnson & Johnson Clinical Diagnostics

  Michael G. Bissel, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H, U of Texas Medical Branch

  Joseph Stumpf, Sunquest Information Systems, Inc.

• Advisors: Robert J. Dominici, Boehringer Mannheim Corporation

  Laura Fitzgerald, Johnson & Johnson Clinical Diagnostics

  Charles D. Hawker, Ph.D., ARUP Laboratories

  Mark Hayashi, TOA Medical Elec. Co.

  Georg E. Hoffmann, M.D., Trillium GmbH

  Masahide Sasaki, M.D., Kochi Medical School

  Katsuji Yamashita, Ph.D., Japan Analytical Inst. Mfgrs. Assn.

• Observers: Richard L. Columbus, Richard L. Columbus & Assoc.

  Randy Davis, Dade Chemistry Systems

  James Doyle, Medical Laboratory Automation, Inc.

  Louis J. Dunka, Jr., Ph.D., LifeScan, Inc.

  Taku Hasegawa, Sysmex Corporation of America

  Takashi Kanno, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine

  Henk Keesom, Johnson & Johnson Clinical Diagnostics

  Matthew Mittino, Abbott Laboratories

  Ronald W. McLawhon, M.D., Ph.D., U of Chicago Medical Ctr

  Paul J. Orsulak, Ph.D., M.B.A., VA Medical Center, Dallas

  Mark Simmons, Boehringer Mannheim Corporation

  Ken Uhara, Sysmex Corporation of America

• Staff: Denise M. Lynch, M.T. (ASCP), M.S., NCCLS

  John J. Zlockie, M.B.A., M.T., NCCLS

Introduction of Subcommittee

• Chairholders: Dr. Markin noted that the five projects submitted by the area committee in November were authorized by the NCCLS Board of Directors. The development cycles for these projects will occur concurrently in accord with an accelerated schedule. The individuals selected to chari the five individual subcommittees are as follows:

• Subcommittee on Communication with Automated Systems, Charles D. Hawker, Ph. D., ARUP Laboratories

• Subcommittee on Electromechanical Interfaces, Richard A. MacPherson, M.D., Medical College of Virginia Hospital

• Subcommittee on Specimen Container/Specimen Carrier, Paul J. Orsulak, Ph.D., VA Medical Center, Dallas

• Subcommittee on Specimen Identification, David A. Herold, M.D., Ph.D., VA Medical Center, San Diego

• Subcommittee on System Status, Russell Tomar, M.D., University of Wisconsin