Paul Labbe, BS, MCLT

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Paul is an experienced health care leader who works with hospitals, clinical laboratories, pathology groups, and non-governmental agencies (NGO’s), throughout the past 45 years specializing in organization management, leadership development, regulatory guidance and education, and information technology support.

During his clinical laboratory career, as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Information Officer, Paul developed strategic initiatives and partnerships to expand diversity of laboratory testing to enhance patient outcomes and reducing patient hospital length of stay.  He and his team worked with many IT vendors to ensure interfaces across multiple systems resulted in clear tracking and reporting of patient specimen and quality results. Paul has had numerous successful Six Sigma Black Belt projects.

An educator at the University of Cincinnati, Paul taught management and leadership courses online for over 16 years, and as a Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA) international board member, he was a contributor and editor of the Body of Knowledge (BOK).

During 2018-19, Paul implemented with the CDC, Heart to Heart International, and the US Public Health Laboratories on the 30 million dollar grant to fight the opioid crisis. He presented leadership training at the Population Based HIV Impact Assessment  (PHIA) fellows conference in Zambia Africa and has recently completed the training of finalists for the Point of Care Testing, in collaboration with the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (NAFC) and Becton Dickenson (BD)

Paul continues to work with pathology laboratories to ensure quality patient care and regulatory compliance with a multitude of successful initial and renewal CLIAcertifications.

Paul received a BS in Natural Sciences from Xavier University and a Master’s in Clinical Laboratory Technology, with a specialty in management. He has served on professional and non-profit boards and actively volunteers among many community organizations. Paul’s greatest love is his wife of 40+ years, their 3 children and 5 grandchildren.