ADVANCE Outlook: Lab Professionals : obituary

In Remembrance of Vern Enge

Matthew T. Patton — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:48:00 GMT

By Sharlene George Vern Enge, founding editor of ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals , as well as ADVANCE newsmagazines for radiologic technology, health information and respiratory care and sleep medicine, died Jan. 5 at age 68 after a courageous...(read more)

Meryman Method Creator Dies

Amanda Koehler — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:08:00 GMT

Harold T. Meryman, 88, an American Red Cross physician who refined the process of freezing blood, died Jan. 10 of coronary artery disease. Dr. Meryman devised the method of freezing concentrated blood cells for up to 10 years in 1971. This has been especially...(read more)

CLMA Founder Dies

Amanda Koehler — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:24:00 GMT

Joan Hughes Logue, 73, a laboratory consultant and founder of the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA), died of lung cancer Nov. 20 in her Longwood, FL, home. Formerly of Newtown Square, PA, Logue, principal of Health Systems Concepts and...(read more)

In Memoriam: Amy Svihovec, 23

Matthew T. Patton — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:37:00 GMT

Amy Svihovec , age 23, a medical laboratory scientist living in the Denver area, was killed in an automobile accident on Tuesday, Nov. 24 while driving from Colorado to spend Thanksgiving with her family in North Dakota. She attended and graduated from...(read more)