BLD Make Connections - Learning to fail forward

BLD Make Connections Learning to fail forward

Lisa McFarlane | MT(ASCP), SM(ASCP) (BS '82)

"Labs have a huge need to connect, manage, and understand their data.  We see a lot of bottlenecks between Labs and the IT departments in hospitals.   Anyone who is interested in this space should find a way to gain credentials that in combination with their BLD degree and lab experience would make them very marketable!"

Lisa McFarlane is the Director of Corporate Accounts and Channel for North America, in the Microbiology Division at Thermo Fisher Scientific. After graduating from MSU with a degree in Medical Technology ('82), Lisa worked at McLaren General Hospital in Flint, Harper Hospital at the Detroit Medical Center, and St. John Hospital in Detroit, and during that time she was certified as a Specialist in Microbiology – SM(ASCP). After 10 years in the lab, she decided to move into sales, and has spent her career since in the diagnostic industry, both at bioMerieux and Thermo Fisher Scientific. Her experience includes local sales, regional business management, national sales leadership, and corporate account sales and leadership, in the clinical, pharma and food protection space for microbiology. She received her Master’s Degree in Healthcare Administration from Central Michigan University.