Press Releases

Good Taste: ARUP’s New Building Will Offer an Improved Dining Experience

ARUP’s new building will provide a new dining experience and more cuisine options, including eight new food stations instead of the current three stations available in old cafeteria. The new café will be open for employees to meet and dine with their family and friends

ARUP Receives Supplier Legacy Award from Premier Inc.

SALT LAKE CITY – ARUP Laboratories today announced that it has received the Supplier Legacy Award from Premier Inc., a leading healthcare improvement company.

ARUP was recognized for its long-standing support of Premier members through exceptional customer service and engagement, value creation through clinical excellence, and commitment to lower costs.

ARUP Names Tracy George, MD, as Its Chief Medical Officer

SALT LAKE CITY – Tracy George, MD, a hematopathologist and internationally recognized expert on mast cell disorders, has been named chief medical officer of ARUP Laboratories effective Sept. 1.

She replaces Julio Delgado, MD, MS, who is transitioning into an executive vice president role. Delgado also will remain chief of ARUP’s Clinical Pathology Division and medical director of ARUP’s Protein Immunology and Immunologic Flow Cytometry laboratories.

ARUP Senior Vice President and People-First Leader Retires after 43 Years

Nancy Andes, senior vice president of marketing, retired on August 3, 2020. She has been with ARUP for 43 years and helped grow ARUP into a well-respected, nationally recognized reference laboratory.

Even in the early days of her career as a medical technologist, Nancy Andes, senior vice president of marketing at ARUP, had a propensity to wander, seeking opportunities to interact with individuals in other departments to learn more

Newly Published Research from ARUP and the U of U Explores Performance of Test Used to Diagnose Invasive Fungal Infections

Kimberly Hanson, MD, ARUP section chief of clinical microbiology and an associate professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine, led a study of serum (1-3)- β-D-glucan tests that was published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

ARUP Announces the Retirements of Two Pioneering Laboratory Scientists

SALT LAKE CITY – ARUP Laboratories today announced the retirements of two pioneering scientists whose work is responsible for important advancements in laboratory medicine.

Carl Wittwer, MD, PhD, medical director of Immunologic Flow Cytometry, is retiring after 32 years at ARUP and the University of Utah School of Medicine, while Karl Voelkerding, MD, medical director of genomics and bioinformatics, is