About Central Lab in Focus

We have seen the central lab market evolve into a truly global provider of clinical trial lab testing. It is an industry that was most recently valued at more than $1.5 billion.
 
We feel that central labs will continue to develop core competencies in the growing complexity of central lab services in a very dynamic environment. The purpose of this blog is to draw attention to the challenges, issues, changes and trends of central lab services, in the hope of starting discussions that will bring forth insights into these topics and relevant concerns. 

Read more about our bloggers and thought leaders at ACM Global below.
 
We will update the blog often and encourage comments to provide a new perspective and advance the conversation.  

Thanks for participating!

 

Kathy Murray
Executive Director, Technical Affairs

Kathy has spent over 25 years in the clinical laboratory with experience in all areas of general laboratory testing. Kathy has been aligned with clinical trials central laboratory division since 1997. Her primary responsibility is to expand the central labs global presence to India and other regions of interest while ensuring data harmonization and standardization of process. 
 

Tracy Hendershott
Executive Director of Global Operations

Tracy has 20 years of clinical trial experience, starting in 1990 working at the largest Phase I facility in the US for five years. He then dedicated his career to the CRA and Project Management pathway for one of the world's largest CROs, in addition to being responsible for establishing regional offices, both domestically and in Tokyo, Japan. His responsibility at ACM currently consists of line management role for US project manager teams, as well as standardizing global operations across ACM's international locations and alliance network. 
 

Lorrie Divers
Director, Clinical Trials Quality Assurance, US

Lorrie D. Divers has worked in clinical trials for 25 years in both the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, as well as in academic research centers. Her previous positions cover the spectrum of clinical research activities, from study coordination, data management, and program coordination to monitoring, clinical project management, quality assurance, and process improvement/Lean Six Sigma. She has nine years of experience in GCP quality assurance, compliance, and training and has successfully managed numerous regulatory authority inspections in the site, sponsor, and central laboratory arenas. Lorrie has presented on GCP topics at local and national SoCRA meetings, as well as at investigator meetings, and has delivered numerous corporate training sessions on clinical research topics. She is a Certified Clinical Research Professional (SoCRA) and a Registered Quality Assurance Professional in GCP (SQA). 
 
 

Dr Andrew Botham
Research and Development Manager

Andrew is a state registered biomedical scientist and has a masters degree in biotechnology and a PhD in medicine. He has worked within the NHS, Private Pharma, as well as academic research. Andrew is the Research and Development Manager for ACM Global Central Laboratory and his responsibilities are many and wide-ranging. Primarily, his role focus's around the identification and development of new analytical practices within ACM Global, in advising project management and business development of scientific, clinical and technical aspects of our procedures, as well as to promote and maintain scientific excellence throughout ACM Global Central Laboratory.  

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