President (2025-2026)
Welcome to the website of the Association of Clinical Scientists. The Association has a long and distinguished history of over 75 years (established in 1949) serving both anatomic and clinical pathologists in a single, multi-specialty professional organization. The Association provides a collegial forum for clinical scientists from many disciplines to interact, socialize and share research and clinical topics in several ways. Our relatively small size, variety of specialties and annual meeting give our Association a sense of tight-knit professional community.
Typically, an in-person Annual Meeting is held yearly in May at an academic medical center of one of our members, who acts as organizing/program committee chair. The program features speakers of interest from the host institution focusing on the academic and clinical strengths of the institution on the first day. Other highlights include nationally recognized invited speakers, sessions of short presentations by established investigators and young scientists alike, presentation of the Association’s annual awards, the Association’s annual Business Meeting, the opportunity to earn CE credits, and concluding with a musical presentation by various musician members of the society. The programs have also traditionally included in-person tours of laboratories at our host institutions and of sites of cultural and scientific importance such as the NASA based international space station command control room. Details regarding meetings can be viewed elsewhere on this website. The structure of the meeting makes for a nice balance of scientific presentations and opportunities for rich interaction between our members.
The Association of Clinical Scientists publishes a peer reviewed, bi-monthly, PubMed indexed journal, Annals of Clinical & Laboratory Science, which was established in 1971. Manuscripts are published in 6 issues of the journal per year with a wide variety of research interests regarding clinical, translational, and basic science fields in laboratory medicine and anatomic pathology. ACS also publishes the Clinical Science Trumpet newsletter on the ACS website three times per year to inform the membership of upcoming events and items of importance.
The Association prides itself on the level of collegiality, sharing of research and ideas, and personal interaction that is not found in most societies. Some of our members are nationally (and world) renowned physicians and scientists. While many other scientific societies have experienced difficulty in continuing operations, in order to remain vibrant, the Association and its support staff has taken several steps to welcome young investigators and adapt to changing social media technologies, while maintaining its unique identity. Early career clinical scientists can attend our Annual Meeting and by voicing interest in taking on an active role in the association, they will be mentored with an eye to a future leadership role. The Association hosts committees typical of a scientific society in addition to committees representative of our goal of fostering collegial interaction between members – such as the Music and Arts and Young Fellows Section. We cordially invite your participation in these committees. If you are not already a member, please consider joining to take advantage of all the benefits the Association has to offer.