WEBINAR: Antinuclear antibody screening - Making an informed decision

In addition to his responsibilities in the clinical laboratory, Dr. Abel also serves as Instructor in Pathology, part-time, at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He has made significant contributions to HCV research with a seminal study demonstrating the use of LDL receptor by the virus as a port of entry into hepatocytes. Gyorgy completed residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and became board certified in Clinical Pathology and in Molecular Diagnostics. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), where he was recently elected as Council Member. He also serves on the Diagnostic Immunology Resource Committee of the College of American Pathologists and the Clinical and Translational Research Subcommittee of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). He is an Overseas Member of the Royal Society of Medicine (U.K.) and the Clinical Advisory Committee of the Reference Material Institute for Clinical Chemistry Standards in Japan. Dr. Abel is the Past Chair of the Clinical Immunology Division of the AACC, former Vice President of the American Board of Clinical Chemistry, and former member of the Clinical Immunology Committee of the American Association of Immunologists. He is the author or co-author of over 100 articles, book chapters, and scientific conference presentations, and a regular reviewer for scientific journals.

Melissa R. Snyder, PhD completed her doctoral degree in Biochemistry through the Mayo Graduate School in 1997. She followed that with a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical/basic immunology, during which time she studied T-cell function in autoimmune disease, specifically rheumatoid arthritis. She then completed a clinical chemistry fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, where she focused on laboratory diagnostics and autoimmune disease. After completing her clinical fellowship, she was board-certified in Clinical Chemistry by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry. Dr. Snyder is currently Co-Director of the Antibody Immunology Laboratory at the Mayo Clinic, with an academic appointment as Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. The Antibody Immunology Lab performs clinical testing that aids in the diagnosis of a variety of autoimmune diseases, which allows Dr. Snyder to continue to pursue her long-standing interest in autoimmunity. Throughout her career, Dr. Snyder has been active in a number of scientific societies, supporting their efforts to promote the field of clinical laboratory immunology. From 2009 to 2013, she served as a liaison from American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) to the College of American Pathologist's Diagnostic Immunology Resource Committee. Also through AACC, Dr. Snyder has been an active member of the Clinical and Diagnostic Immunology Division, having served as the Education Officer (2013-2016) and as Chair-Elect (2016-present). Dr. Snyder is also a member of the Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists (AMLI), and has served as Councilor on the Executive Committee from 2014-2015. Her goal is to provide educational opportunities, to raise awareness among laboratorians and clinicians about the challenges and opportunities that exist within the diagnostic immunology laboratory, and to attract new scientists and investigators to the area of clinical immunology.