Currently ASCLS is looking for Professionals who wish to provide their creativity, energy, and passion to our mission. Volunteering for ASCLS is a great way to build your professional network and empower our profession. Additionally, organizations like the Mayo Clinic report that volunteering can provide us with a sense of purpose, teach us valuable skills, and can even improve our physical and mental health.
In many instances, volunteering for an ASCLS committee involves a two-year appointment with the opportunity to continue your service forward! While the time commitment does vary per committee, many of the groups do meet for at least one hour per month via teleconference. Outside of these teleconferences, volunteers spend time on projects that advance the committee’s work.
To make the process easier, this application has been streamlined. The data gathered here will be used to match volunteers with the opportunities that most closely align their area of interest and passions. So please complete all areas of this profile.
The following is a synopsis of committees with a need for volunteers:
- Association of Medical Laboratory Educational Programs (AMLEP) Board of Directors: The mission of the Association of Medical Laboratory Educational Programs (AMLEP) is to facilitate and encourage collaboration, cooperation, and communication among medical laboratory educational programs.
- Annual Meeting Steering Committee: The Committee plans scientific sessions and workshops for the Joint Annual Meeting (JAM) in cooperation with the Board of Directors and staff.
- Awards Committee: Coordinates and markets all the awards offered by ASCLS for members and Constituent Societies.
- Body of Knowledge Committee: Responsible for the review process of the ASCLS Body of Knowledge document. This important document helps communicate the knowledge, skills, and behaviors of medical laboratory professionals.
- Bylaws Committee: This important Committee receives proposed changes to the Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation and prepares said Amendments for consideration. Also, the Committee examines, considers, and approves appropriate proposed changes to the constitutional codes of constituent societies.
- Clinical Laboratory Educators Conference Steering Committee: This Committee serves to develop short and long-term plans for the Clinical Laboratory Educators Conference (CLEC) consistent with the ASCLS Strategic Plan, creates the annual educational program, and provides direction and oversight to the abstract and program submission process.
- Constituent Society Steering Committee: This Steering Committee is responsible for advising the Board of Directors on standards for constituent societies, assessing the health of constituent societies, creating educational programming and tools focused in improving the health and effectiveness of constituent societies, and facilitating mentoring relationships between constituent society leaders to promote peer-to-peer exchange of ideas and support.
- DCLS Oversight Committee: The committee coordinates activities related to establishing DCLS programs.
- Emerging Laboratory Managers Education Steering Committee: This committee is responsible for the development and execution of training programs to develop professionals in or seeking to enter laboratory management, which includes, but it not limited to the ELMC2 and the Laboratory Management Institute.
- Education and Research (E&R) Fund Trustee: The E&R Fund is a separately incorporated 501(c)3 charitable organization that supports scholarly activity dealing with the clinical laboratory profession and provides undergraduate/graduate scholarships. The Fund's trustees are responsible for overseeing fundraising activities and the administration and awarding of scholarship from named funds.
- ELMC2 Steering Committee: The Committee is responsible for strategically guiding the needs identification, development, and execution of training programs to develop professionals in or seeking to enter laboratory management, which includes, but it not limited to the ELMC2 and the Laboratory Management Institute.
- Government Affairs Committee: The GAC assists ASCLS in achieving objectives of influencing the formulation of appropriate public (governmental) policy on health care issues vital to the profession and the public.
- Leadership Development Committee: The Committee cultivates and encourages those individuals who have indicated a talent and interest in serving in a leadership position.
- Marketing and Communications Committee: The Committee assists the Society with identifying and implementing its MarCom strategy.
- Membership Committee: This Committee is responsible for the recruitment of new members and the retention of present members, reactivation of lapsed members, and other member services.
- Patient Safety and Diagnostic Stewardship Committee: The committee aims to promote standards in clinical laboratory methods and research for the delivery of safe, effective, equitable, patient centered, timely efficient laboratory services to ensure patient safety and improve outcomes.
- Political Action Committee Board: The Political Action Committee (PAC) works with the Government Affairs Committee to raise funds in support of the ASCLS legislative and regulatory goals. In addition to its primary focus on fundraising, the board members monitor legislation at the local, state and federal level dealing with clinical laboratory issues to help identify candidates who should receive the PAC's financial support.
- P.A.C.E. Committee: The Committee oversees the ASCLS P.A.C.E. program, which creates a combined provider approval and education documentation system for creating educational programs for interested allied health professionals.
- Virtual Learning Steering Committee: This committee leads the Society's efforts in virtual learning, which includes webinars and webcasts, as well as courses delivered through the ASCLS Learning Management System.
We look forward to receiving your application. If you have further questions please feel to email chair of the Volunteer Appointments Committee, Kyle Riding, at KBRiding823@gmail.com