Case Studies in Lab Acquisitions—The Impact on Clinical and Lab Operations

Lecture Presenters

Brian R. Jackson, MD, MS Medical Director, Business Development, IT, and Support Services ARUP Laboratories Pathology - Associate Professor (Clinical), Biomedical Informatics - Adjunct Associate Professor University of Utah School of Medicine

Dr. Jackson directs informatics efforts at ARUP, including ARUP Consult®, charting, and software product management. He is the medical director for Business Development, Support Services and IT at ARUP and an associate professor of pathology (clinical) at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He received his BA in mathematics, his MS in medical informatics, and his MD from the University of Utah, and completed a clinical pathology residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Prior to his employment at ARUP, Dr. Jackson was a staff clinical pathologist and informaticist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a product manager for a Belgium-based medical software firm, and a National Library of Medicine informatics fellow at the University of Utah. Dr. Jackson’s research interests include economic analysis of diagnostic testing, physician utilization of laboratory tests, and corporate social responsibility in healthcare. He is certified in clinical pathology by the American Board of Pathology.

Ladonna Bradley, MT(ASCP) Healthcare Consultant, Sr; Consultative Services ARUP Laboratories

Ladonna Bradley has 27 years of combined clinical and consulting experience in the healthcare industry and is currently a senior healthcare consultant for ARUP. Prior to ARUP, Ladonna has 25 years of clinical laboratory experience, including work in the laboratory as a generalist before being advanced to supervisor and manager roles, eventually spending 10 years as administrative laboratory director for a large healthcare system. As director, she worked closely with hospital and laboratory leadership (under a laboratory management agreement) to improve turnaround time, decrease costs, improve patient care and employee satisfaction, implement laboratory stewardship and utilization management programs, implement and monitor quality metrics and performance, and adhere to regulatory compliance requirements. She holds an BS in medical technology from East Tennessee State University and is board certified as a medical technologist by the American Society for Clinical Pathology.

Steven Serota Chief Operating Officer Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratories