What's New at GML?

Kairong Li, PhD, Laboratory Manager at Geisinger Community Medical Center

The new laboratory manager for Geisinger Community Medical Center is Kairong Li, PhD, who comes to us from Madison Core Laboratories where he served as the technical director. There he gained expertise in laboratory testing methodologies, encompassing molecular testing, microbiology, chemistry, and pathology. He has experience in developing, validating/verifying, and implementing FDA-cleared, EUA, and laboratory-developed tests and workflows within CLIA/CAP laboratories and was responsible for overseeing laboratory expenditures, vendor contract negotiations for testing instruments and reagents and harnessing LIS resources for data analysis and reporting purposes.

Before his time at Madison Core Laboratories, he held roles as the laboratory manager and genomic scientist for Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and the managing scientist for BioGX, Inc. Prior to that he was an instructor for the Department of Genetics at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and did his postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences of the University of Connecticut Health Science Center.  He holds a PhD in biological sciences (neurobiology), and a master's in biochemistry and molecular biology.     

 

Christine Pirillo, DHA, MSM, FACHDM, PMP, Laboratory Senior Director

GML welcomes Christine Pirillo to the role of senior director, Laboratory Customer Support.

Chris began her laboratory career in 2004 and since then has held various lab leadership roles at both Pocono Medical Center and Geisinger. In her most recent project and program manager roles with Beckman Coulter and Omnicell, she led the development and deployment of various improvement projects in support of organizational strategies.

Chris holds a doctorate in Healthcare Administration from Virginia University of Lynchburg as well as a master of science in project management from Thomas Edison State University.  She has an extensive background in project management and obtained her Lean Six Sigma Black Belt in 2019.

In her role, Chris will have operational responsibility for the laboratory contact center, customer support, off-site and clinic phlebotomy services, laboratory sales and the medical laboratory science and phlebotomy educational programs.

 

LeAnn Hess, Associate Vice President

LeAnn Hess recently rejoined Geisinger as the associate vice president in our laboratory. LeAnn earned a bachelor of science degree in medical technology from Bloomsburg University, a master’s in healthcare administration from Kings College, Wilkes-Barre, and an MBA from Quantic, Washington D.C.  She also completed a certificate program in Lean healthcare from Belmont University.

LeAnn possesses a wealth of healthcare experiences, including laboratory operations experience. Early in her career she worked as a medical laboratory scientist in our laboratory’s donor services, technical specialist in the GMC laboratory pre-analytical section, and as Proven Diagnostics IT project manager/support technologist. LeAnn transitioned to other roles in the health system, including a performance improvement consultant role focusing on improving patient access and patient throughput. She was also an operations manager for the Medicine Institute, operations director for Geisinger at Home, and regional administrative director for UPMC laboratory services, North Central PA.

Most recently LeAnn has worked at Ascension as a manager of post-acute strategy and operations. At Ascension, LeAnn was responsible for the development and implementation of a state-wide post-acute strategy within Wisconsin.

In the AVP role, LeAnn will have administrative responsibility for clinical pathology operations in our hospital and rapid response, clinic-based laboratories, the laboratory contact center, customer support functions and laboratory sales, off-site and clinic phlebotomy services, and medical laboratory science and phlebotomy educational programs.

 

 

 

 

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