Spotlight on Testing: Biochemical Testing for Pheochromocytoma

Lecture Presenters

Elizabeth L. Frank, PhD Medical Director, Analytic Biochemistry Laboratory ARUP Laboratories Medical Director, Calculi and Manual Chemistry Laboratory ARUP Laboratories Co-Medical Director, Mass Spectrometry Laboratory ARUP Laboratories Associate Professor of Pathology University of Utah School of Medicine

Dr. Frank is the medical director of the Analytic Biochemistry Laboratory and the Calculi and Manual Chemistry Laboratory, and co-medical director of the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at ARUP, as well as an associate professor of pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Frank received her PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder in organic chemistry and completed her clinical internship in pathology from the Penrose Hospital School of Medical Technology. Dr. Frank continued her training with a postdoctoral fellowship in pharmacy at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical chemistry at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Frank is certified in clinical chemistry by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry.

Sarah A. Hackenmueller, PhD, DABCC Director of Clinical Chemistry University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Dr. Hackenmueller is from Eagle River, AK. She received her Bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biochemistry from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and a graduate degree in Physiology and Pharmacology from the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, OR. Her academic and research interests lie in expanding the role of mass spectrometry in the clinical laboratory. She recently completed her Clinical Chemistry Fellowship at the University of Utah and is now the director of clinical chemistry and assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.