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Zachary Wilkey (center), Operations Engineering group manager, explains features of ARUP’s laboratory automation system to members of the Association of University Research Parks (AURP) during a tour that was part of AURP’s annual convention in Salt Lake City.

ARUP Consult, a free online test selection and interpretation tool, added updated information in September that includes preoperative testing guidance for ovarian cancer biomarkers and testing strategies for malaria.

Harry R. Hill, MD, has been honored by the creation of the Harry R. Hill Presidential Endowed Chair in the University of Utah Department of Pathology, where he was a professor for 47 years before his retirement from the U and ARUP Laboratories on October 1, 2021.

Harry R. Hill, MD, is retiring after 47 years at the University of Utah and ARUP, where he created both the first immunology clinic and the first immunology lab.

AirMed carries O-negative blood and AB plasma on each flight. Approximately two patients per week receive blood products on the way to the hospital. This blood is from individuals who donated through ARUP Blood Services.

ARUP Consultative Services helps clients make sound testing decisions to ensure they can control health system costs without sacrificing or delaying critical patient diagnostic testing results. From left are Director of Consultative Services Sandy Richman, Senior Healthcare Consultant Ben Chacon, former Technical Operations Director Martha Bale, and Andrew Fletcher, MD, medical director of Consultative Services.

The additional COVID-19 Lab that ARUP has reconstructed to help meet renewed demand performs automated COVID-19 testing by nucleic acid amplification on Roche instrumentation.

ARUP’s dedicated employees, including Brook Berger, a lab supervisor, make a difference in the lives of patients every day. A workplace culture that prioritizes patient care is among the strengths that landed ARUP on Forbes’ list of America’s Best Employers by State for 2021.

On a tour of ARUP’s state-of-the-art laboratory facility, Chief Operations Officer Jonathan Genzen, MD, PhD, explains to Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, the role that automated sorters play in getting specimens through the laboratory to specific testing locations.

An ARUP employee reviews the result of a test to detect the presence of ova or parasites in a specimen. ARUP and Techcyte collaborated in 2019 to produce the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled detection tool, which helps laboratorians quickly screen out negative results so they can spend more time analyzing slides that show positive results.