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Dr. George Cembrowski received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin and his MD from the University of Calgary. Dr. Cembrowski is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Alberta School of Medicine and Dentistry and was Director of Medical Biochemistry at the University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta. He was previously Laboratory Director at Park Nicollet Clinic, Minneapolis (a multi-site, multi-specialty group practice). He has served as an Expert Panel Member for the Centers for Disease Control and the College of American Pathologists, consultant to numerous in vitro diagnostic companies and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Cembrowski has been recruited as a quality expert for seminars and laboratory professional meeting throughout the U.S. and Canada. He is the author of Laboratory Quality Management (Am Soc Clin Path) as well as numerous scientific and technical articles. -
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June 1996: Institute for Research and Education, Health System Minnesota, Research Award.
July 2013: National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry, Distinguished Abstract at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry National Meeting: Tighter biological variation precison target required for lactate testing in patients with lactic acidosis.
July 2014: National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry, Distinguished Abstract at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry National Meeting: Magnitude of short and long-term intra-patient BNP variation in low BNP patients: Implications for more rational BNP utilization.
June 2015: University of Alberta General Pathology Residents Teaching Award
April 2016: Canadian Society for Clinical Chemistry Award for Research Excellence. Publications:
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Dr. Mark Cembrowski completed his PhD in Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University. During graduate school, he used computational modeling in conjunction with patch-clamp electrophysiology to build realistic models of retinal cells, synapses and circuits. Dr. Mark is a Research
scientist at Janelia Research Campus at Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Dr. Mark Cervinski Ph.D DABCC, originally from Bonnyville, Alberta Canada received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota in 2006. Following his Ph.D. training Dr. Cervinski shifted his focus from the basic sciences to clinical chemistry and completed a Fellowship in Clinical Chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis in the summer of 2009. Mark joined the Department of Pathology as an Assistant Professor of Pathology and as the Director of Clinical Chemistry at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in August of 2009. Among diverse interests in clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine Dr. Cervinski is currently focused on using patient data as a supplementary quality control strategy, as well as test utilization/optimization and finding efficiencies in delivering laboratory results. -
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Pathology
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Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2006
University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Clinical Chemistry Fellowship, 2007-2009
Washington University School of Medicine
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Dr. Wendy Skoropadyk MLT, ART, BA has had over 18 years of experience in the Diagnostics Services field; spanning the areas of bench technologist, to management. She began her career as a Combined Lab and X-ray Technologist, and presently holds designations for Medical Lab Technologist and Advanced Registered Technologist with a degree in Health Services Administration.
Additionally she has had several year’s experience working in the functional areas her position requires; operation functioning through staff development, training, and education maintaining and troubleshooting analyzers, quality control and methodologies, financial resource monitoring/analysis and staff coordination and management.
Her career has been diverse from regional rural healthcare to tertiary lab management; and work in the private sector as a Laboratory Technical Specialist. She has been the co-chair of a Provincial Examination Committee working with the DSME setting questions and exam criteria for CLXT’s; worked on the AB/ONT task force to develop Chemistry Competence Profiles, and assistant Project Manager for a Regional LIS install involving 15 labs. -
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IH Chemistry Technical Specialist
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Advanced Registered Technologist, Advanced Registered Technologist Chemistry- ART 1993 – 1994
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
Medical Laboratory Technologist, Medical Laboratory Science 1989 – 1991
Canadian School of Management
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