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Recognizing Our Outstanding NAACLS Volunteers by Edward Rotchford Program Coordinator

In 2007, the NAACLS Board of Directors approved a new Volunteer Recognition program with a goal to recognize all of those outstanding individuals who, in addition to their own busy schedules and responsibilities, volunteer their time to the NAACLS peer review process. If not for their time and dedication, NAACLS would not be able to function as successfully as it does today.

One purpose of the new Volunteer Recognition program is to publicly recognize those who have participated in 30 or more Self-Study Paper Reviews or program site visits since the year 2000. NAACLS would like to send a sincere thank you to the following individuals who have truly set the standard as "Outstanding NAACLS Volunteers:"

Mary Jean Rutherford, MEd, MT(ASCP)SC
Arkansas State University - Retired

Mary Jean began volunteering for NAACLS in 1990. She served on the Clinical Laboratory Sciences Program Review Committee (CLSPRC) from 1993-2002, 2004 and has served on the Programs Approval Review Committee (PARC) since 2005. Among her proudest achievements since working with NAACLS has been meeting many new friends and colleagues, and serving as CLSPRC Chair in 2001-2002.
Katherine Nisi Zell, EdS, CLS(NCA), MT(ASCP)SH
Prog. Director/Okefenokee Consultant
Coastal Georgia Community College

Nisi has been volunteering for NAACLS since the late 1980s and served on the CLSPRC from 1990-1998. She is currently serving her second term on PARC, to which she was elected in 2001. Nisi feels that her proudest achievement since being involved with NAACLS has been mentoring new volunteers and site visitors and watching them become active in the NAACLS peer review process.

Marcia Armstrong, MS, MT(ASCP), CLS(NCA)
Program Director
University of Hawaii - Kapiolani Community College

Marcia has been a NAACLS volunteer since the late 1970s and first became a site visitor in 1981. She served on PARC from 1998-2006 and was Chair from 2002-2005. Marcia was elected to serve on the CLSPRC in 2006 and continues to serve on the newly created Review Committee for Accredited Programs (RCAP). Marcia considers her proudest achievement with NAACLS to be during her time as PARC Chair when a merged review process was established for CLT/MLT and Phlebotomy programs sponsored by the same institution.

Teresa Taff, MA, MT(ASCP)SM
Program Director
St. John's Mercy Medical Center

Teresa has been a NAACLS volunteer since 1997. She has served on the CLSPRC and continues to serve on RCAP as Vice Chair. Teresa feels that her proudest achievement with NAACLS has been serving on the programs review committees, not only which she considers an honor, but also which she credits to helping improve her own CLS/MT program.

Karen Myers, MA, MT(ASCP)SC, CLS(NCA)
Program Director
The Colorado Center for Medical Laboratory Science

Karen has been volunteering for NAACLS for nearly 20 years. She served on PARC and was Chair from 2004-2007. Karen considers a number of areas in working with NAACLS that she feels most proudly about, including the continued cohesiveness of PARC and its review processes, committee contributions to standard revisions, and the opportunity to work with
other field experts.
 

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