Interviews

The recently-retired head of the Labs Are Vital™ initiative talks about developing, launching, and growing the popular laboratory community program.

An interview with a Six Sigma Black Belt from Quest Diagnostics.

We are lucky to have an interview with both a Black Belt in training and a Master Black Belt. This not only gives us a chance to discuss the process of becoming a black belt, it also gives us the opportunity to view a Six Sigma project as it is being implemented.

An interview with Dr. Gordon Kapke, VP for Global Technical Affairs at Covance Laboratories. Dr. Kapke describes how Covance has applied the Six Sigma concepts without formally implementing an entire Six Sigma management program. You don't need to have a black or green belt to strive to zero defects.

We were fortunate enough to get R. Neill Carey, PhD, the chair of the CLSI EP 15 committee, to present and explain that new standard. He also contributed a chapter to the new Basic Method Validation manual. But for those who have never heard of EP 15 before, we conducted a short interview with Dr. Carey. This short introduction to EP 15 may pique your interest in this new guideline.