Kandice Kottke-Marchant & Bruce Davis 
Laboratory Hematology Practice [EPUB ebook] 

Dr Kandice Kottke-Marchant, MD Ph D, Section Head, Hemostasis
and Thrombosis, Department of Clinical Pathology, The Cleveland
Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA and President,
International Society of Laboratory Hematology. She is also a
Professor of Pathology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of
Medicine and an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Case
Western Reserve University. She has published over 100
peer-reviewed publications in the field of haemostasis, is an
international expert on platelet testing and aspirin resistance,
and has served on review panels from the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), College of American Pathologists (CAP), ISO/TC212 and
North American Specialized Coagulation Laboratory Association
(NASCOLA). She has been a driving force to increase the
international visibility and impact of the ISLH. She has been
responsible for running the ISLH annual Symposia since 2002. Due to
her involvement in haemostasis and the ISLH, Dr. Kottke-Marchant
will be uniquely positioned to serve as one of the co-Editors of
the Textbook of Laboratory Hematology.
Elkin Simson, MD, PCAP, FACSP is the Medical Director of
the Center for Clinical Laboratories and Hematology Laboratory at
the Mount Sinai Hospital. He is also Associate Professor and Vice
Chairman of the Department of Pathology at the Mount Sinai School
of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Dr. Simson was formerly the
Vice-President for Medical and Scientific Affairs at Technicon
Instruments Corporation, where he participated in the development
of the first automated haematology analyzers to combine the CBC and
WBC differential into a single instrument. Dr Simson is the Past
President of the ISLH and is Vice-President of the International
Council for Standardization in Hematology (ICSH). He has been
Chairman of the Hematology Area Committee of NCCLS (now CLSI), a
member of Council of the National Reference System for the Clinical
Laboratory (NRSCL) and the Hematology and Quality Improvement
Subcommittees of the NCCCLS. He was a member of the Hematology and
Pathology Advisory Panel of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Due to his long-time involvement in haematology automation and
standards organizations, Dr. Simson is an idea co-editor.
The proposed section editors are chosen from international
experts in their respective fields; most have also been long-time
ISLH members who have been faculty at one or more ISLH Symposia and
who have been repeatedly recognized as outstanding speakers and
contributors by the participants. Dr Bruce Davis is one of
the co-founders of the ISLH and has a long history of involvement
in developing automated cellular and flow cytometric technologies.
Professor Alberto Orfao from Spain is one of the world’s
foremost experts on flow cytometry. Professor Samuel Machin is
currently President of the British Society of Haematology and is an
international authority on haemostasis testing. Stefanie Mc Fadden
is a medical technologist who is sought after as a consultant for
laboratory management and informatics issues.