Clinical Chemistry Association's President-Elect Aims To Increase Viability Of The Organization; Polykarp Kusch

Author: Ron Kaufman, pp.21 Clinical Chemistry Association's President-Elect Aims Washington U. Biologist Takes T Cell Post Obituary - Polykarp Kusch To Increase Viability Of The Organization The new president-elect of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), Lawrence M. Killingsworth, says he plans to institute a program aimed at ensuring the 10,000-member organization's ongoing strength and viability. Killingsworth, 47, who directs the Clinical Chemistry and Immunology Lab

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To Increase Viability Of The Organization The new president-elect of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), Lawrence M. Killingsworth, says he plans to institute a program aimed at ensuring the 10,000-member organization's ongoing strength and viability. Killingsworth, 47, who directs the Clinical Chemistry and Immunology Laboratories at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., says that a nationwide mentoring program should be implemented "to develop the leaders of tomorrow ... in the discipline of clinical chemistry."

When he assumes the AACC presidency in January 1994, Killingsworth says, he will design a mentoring program to help AACC members not heavily involved in the association to become more familiar with its activities.

"What this program will do," he says, "is take the core of really active local section members and officials, and reach out to some others who are members to get them more involved."

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