Matthew McQueen receives award for outstanding contributions to clinical chemistry

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The American Association for Clinical Chemistry
(AACC) presented one of its major awards to Matthew
McQueen of McMaster University at its annual meeting.
Dr. McQueen won the AACC Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Chemistry.
He is a professor in the department of pathology
and molecular medicine at McMaster University, director of the Hamilton
Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, and chief of the departments of laboratory
medicine at Hamilton Health
Sciences and St. Joseph’s Healthcare.
His early scientific work was in the measurement of enzymes and isoenzymes
in heart and liver disease. As a physician and director of the Lipid Research
Clinic, his clinical focus has been on lipid disorders, prevention of cardiovascular
disease, and the investigation of statins, fibrates, and probucol in reducing
disease risk.
With investigators at the Population
Health Research Institute, he has established a bank of several hundred
thousand patient samples. This tissue bank will increase to two to three million
in the next five years and could become the basis for the work of a high-throughput
facility to investigate population proteomics.
Dr. McQueen has been an invited speaker in 45 countries and has authored more
than 140 scientific papers on enzymes, lipids, cardiovascular disease, laboratory
management, ethics, and evidence-based laboratory medicine.
He has held several offices in the Canadian Society
of Clinical Chemists, including president, and chaired the board of the
Canadian Academy of Clinical Biochemistry.
He has been treasurer, vice-president, and president of the International
Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine.
Sponsored by Bayer HealthCare Diagnostics
Division, the award includes a $5,000 honorarium.
AACC is a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit professional association with a membership
of more than 9,000 clinical chemists, pathologists, medical technologists, and
others in related fields. Through educational services and publications, AACC
works to improve and advance laboratory services to enhance public health and
patient care.