MLO Board member helps author new report.

MLO's Editorial Advisory Board member, C. Anne Pontius, is one of five laboratory professionals and legal experts who helped prepare the CLIA Compliance Handbook: A Guide for the Clinical Laboratory, 2nd ed. This research report, written with the expertise of the Washington G-2 Reports' editors covers lab regulations under CLIA (1988); CLIA certification programs and fees; CLIA standards for test performance; lab inspections and surveys under CLIA; and more. Pontius is senior director of Quality Systems at Expression Analysis in Durham, NC, and is presidentelect of CLMA.

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