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New Blood Entering the Lab Industry
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume VII No. 2 – January 24, 2000 Issue
SURPRISE! THERE’S A QUIET MANAGEMENT REVOLUTION UNDER WAY in both the clinical laboratory industry and pathology profession. During the past few years, a steady flow of new-thinking Presidents and CEOs have taken control of laboratories, pathology group practices, and vendor companies. From CEO Ke…
“July 19, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 10 – July 19, 1999 Issue
One of dermatopathology’s academic giants has been snared by a pathology PPM. A. Bernard Ackerman, M.D., will leave his professor post at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia to work with AmeriPath, Inc. and help it develop a dermatopathology center in New Yor…
“June 7, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 8 – June 7, 1999 Issue
Another laboratorian has caught entrepreneur’s fever. Paul Gotcher accepted a position in April as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Advanced Pathology Systems, Inc. (PSI) of San Francisco. PSI is a start-up company developing enhanced microscopy techniques. Gotcher was mos…
Bayer Acquires Chiron In Consolidation Move
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 13 – September 28, 1998 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As expected, consolidation within the diagnostics industry continues. This time it is Bayer, spending $1.1 billion to acquire Chiron’s diagnostics business. Once completed, Bayer will be the fourth-largest diagnostics company in the world. Laboratory customers of both firms…
AACC Convention Exhibits Point To New Lab Trends
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 11 – August 17, 1998 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This year the interesting trend at the AACC’s exhibit hall was modular laboratory automation. That’s a big change from the total laboratory automation solutions touted in past years. But watch out! The economics of this equipment have yet to be validated. It was also clea…
“August 4, 1997 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 11 – August 4, 1997 Issue
Impressions from the AACC’s annual convention in Atlanta in July: With more than 16,000 attendees, it is much larger than CLMA. International attendees comprised at least 25% of that number. The exhibit hall is heavy on technical products and instruments. Conspicuously absent as exhibitors were the…
Laboratory Trade Group Launches New Activities
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 2 – January 27, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Long overlooked by most of the laboratory industry, ACLA may be in the process of revolutionary change. Since David Sundwall, M.D., became President, ACLA has taken a more assertive stance on a wide variety of issues which affect all laboratories, not just ACLA members….
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