Ascending and Developing Professional Councilor and Committee Volunteers

ASCLS has opportunities for members to serve on the following committees:

• Awards Committee: Coordinates all activities on publication, description, nomination, selection, and presentation of Societal awards.
• Body of Knowledge Committee: The committee is responsible for the BOK review process including accepting, reviewing, collating, and integrating comments/changes into the BOK document. The committee will determine if the changes are substantive or minor and refer to House of Delegates as necessary.
• Bylaws Committee: The Committee receives the 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.
• Constituent Society Steering Committee: This CSSC is responsible for advising the Board of Directors on standards for constituent societies, assessing the health of constituent societies, creation of 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. The committee will be made up of three members who are president, president-elect, immediate past president or treasurer of a constituent society at the time of their appointment. In addition, three members are appointed at-large.
• DCLS Oversight Committee: The committee coordinates activities related to establishing DCLS programs.
• Emerging Laboratory Managers Education Steering Committee: ELMESC is responsible for strategically guiding the need 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. The Committee Identifies the educational needs of medical laboratory professionals who are serving in management positions with an emphasis on medical laboratory professionals new to management, considering the move into management, or those who are experienced but may have not been provided proper training.
• 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. The GAC is charged with creating a process to mentor state GAC representatives and assist with grassroots campaigns to introduce and advance legislation pertinent to the medical laboratory profession
• Leadership Development Committee: The Committee cultivates members to encourage those individuals who have indicated a talent and interest in serving in a leadership position. Responsible for increasing state and regional “activity” in leadership development and orienting new leaders and ensuring they have all written information necessary to succeed in their roles
• Marketing and Communications Committee: The Committee assists the Society with identifying and implementing its MarCom strategy. Three at-large members join eight ex-officio representatives on the committee. At least one of these at-large members must be an ascending professional member.
• 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 serves to promote member understanding of the laboratory professional’s role in patient safety and provides tools, resources, and educational materials to improve safety for all patients served. In addition to the general charges for all ASCLS committees, the Patient Safety Committee is charged with evaluating new routes to patient safety committee initiatives such as Test utilization; Choose Wisely; Harmonization; Interdisciplinary approach – develop programs for RNs and MLS; Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report – How can laboratory help improve patient outcomes.
• Political Action Committee: The 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 P.A.C.E. program, which creates a combined provider approval and education documentation system for creating educational programs for interested allied health professionals. In addition to the general charges for all ASCLS committees, the P.A.C.E. committee is charged with identifying opportunities for new markets for the program.
• Virtual Learning Steering Committee: The VLSC leads the Society's efforts in virtual learning, which includes webinars and webcasts, as well as courses delivered through the ASCLS Learning Management System. This group is responsible for coordinating with virtual learning initiatives already underway within other volunteer leadership groups.