News

February 2012

Laboratory Management and Directorship

We are pleased to announce that New England Pathology Associates, P.C. (NEPA) executed a management contract with Life Laboratories, effective February 1, 2012. This collaboration makes Life Laboratories the first and only physician led and physician managed clinical laboratory in the region.

Lanu Stoddart, MD, serves as the Pathologist Administrator, directing the operation and growth of Life Laboratories. A member of NEPA since November of 2009, Dr. Stoddart has extensive experience in clinical pathology laboratory operations, serving in the past as Medical Director of S.E.D. Medical Laboratories in New Mexico and currently as Chief of Pathology at Harrington Memorial Hospital in Southbridge, Massachusetts. Krystyna Sikorska, MD, continues in her role as Medical Director of Life Laboratories.

This innovative management relationship has already been recognized nationally, with NEPA invited to formally present its concept at the 2012 G2 Intelligence Pathology Institute Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

“NEPA has a long-standing reputation for offering timely, cost-effective and clinically relevant services for practitioners and their patients with the type of sub-specialty expertise in pathology usually associated with academic medical centers,” said Dr. Stoddart. “NEPA’s experienced pathologists provide accurate and meaningful diagnoses to facilitate appropriate clinical care, and we are pleased to be able to bring this same commitment to the services of Life Laboratories.”

Life Laboratories is a full-service medical diagnostic laboratory serving physicians and their patients in Western Massachusetts and conducts approximately four million tests per year for three hospitals, physician group practices, mental health facilities, dozens of long-term care facilities and hundreds of physicians.