Dennis J DietzenDennis J. Dietzen, PhD, is Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine and Medical Director of Laboratories at St. Louis Children's Hospital. He received a B.S. from Marian College in Indianapolis and his Ph.D. fom Indiana University. He completed a fellowship in Clinical Chemistry at Washington University in 1995 then served as Development Chemist at the former DuPont Diagnostics and Medical Director of Clinical Laboratories at the Memphis Veterans Affairs Hospital before returning to St. Louis. Dr. Dietzen is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research, the Society for Inborn Metabolic Disorders, and the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists. He received the AACC Award for Outstanding Contributions to Pediatric Clinical Chemistry in 2012 and served as AACC President in 2018. Dr. Dietzen serves on the Editorial Board for Clinical Biochemistry and Critical Review in Clinical Laboratory Science and serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Dietzen's current research interests focus on mass spectrometry applications in pediatrics including drug screening, rapid detection of metabolic disease, liver failure, pre-eclampsia, and neonatal hypoglycemia. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, monographs, editorials, and book chapters on these and other subjects. Read More Read Less