The goal of Hubbard Laboratory Consulting (HLC) is to help clinical laboratories grow using a quality-focused approach.

Founder:

Jacqueline Hubbard, PhD, DABCC founded Hubbard Lab Consulting (HLC) in February 2024. Dr. Hubbard has dedicated her career to advising colleagues, manufacturers, students, and trainees on clinical chemistry concepts, toxicology interpretation, LC-MS/MS method development, and validation procedures. Her passion lies in education, scientific communication, and technical writing. She hopes to help manufacturers understand the unmet needs of the clinical lab, assist fellow laboratorians to offer high-quality testing, and provide laboratory medicine education to individuals at all experience levels.

Dr. Hubbard began her laboratory medicine career by completing a ComACC-accredited post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Health. There, she learned clinical chemistry and toxicology fundamentals, including advancements and limitations of laboratory testing, interpretation of complicated laboratory results, regulatory compliance, and quality assurance techniques. For research, she focused on LC-MS/MS-based quantification of various cannabinoids in whole blood, oral fluid, and breath samples as part of a larger project to study the effects of cannabis on driving performance.

After completion of her fellowship, Dr. Hubbard went on to the be Assistant Director of Clinical Chemistry at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and served as an Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. There, she assisted with oversight of the clinical chemistry, special chemistry, and toxicology sections of the lab. She implemented LC-MS/MS-based toxicology and therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) testing. This involved method development, validation, staff training, and procedure writing. She regularly consulted and collaborated with clinicians to ensure that the laboratory met the needs of the patients. Dr. Hubbard played a pivotal role during the COVID-19 pandemic including studying serology response after vaccination and wastewater-based surveillance techniques. Dr. Hubbard also worked with medical students, residents, and fellows to complete process-improvement projects, original research studies, publications, and presentation preparation for seminars and conferences. Finally, she regularly lectured on basic laboratory medicine principles.

Next, Dr. Hubbard went on to be the Clinical Laboratory Director of a reference laboratory located in Pittsburgh, PA. There, she had oversight of toxicology, chemistry, urinalysis, hematology, sample processing, and molecular testing. In her first year, she helped the lab move into a new building. This involved intensive planning, designs for laboratory spaces, instrument selection for new testing, post-move verification experiments for existing testing, and more. While working for this company, much of Dr. Hubbard’s effort was geared towards improving the overall laboratory. She worked to optimize workflows, teach staff good laboratory practices, implement quality initiatives, increase CAP regulatory compliance, and offer on-demand consultations to clinicians and sales staff. She educated staff, guided policy writing, and modified training programs with the goal of making all staff confident in their ability and understanding of clinical testing. Dr Hubbard ensured quality testing while working within the constraints of a small, budget-conscious laboratory.

Throughout her career, Dr. Hubbard has authored dozens of peer-reviewed publications, co-authored a textbook, written editorials, newspaper articles, and more. She has presented complex laboratory medicine topics at local and national conferences. She has dedicated much of her time to education and is a regular instructor for MSACL’s LC-MS/MS 101 course, a class intended to teach new users how develop and validate LC-MS/MS methods in their own laboratory. Dr. Hubbard’s experience has served her well when working with students, clinical laboratory scientists, and laboratory directors to perfect presentation and writing skills.

Dr Hubbard’s certifications

• Diplomate of the American Board of Clinical Chemistry (DABCC)

• National Registry of Certified Chemists (NRCC)

• American Society for Clinical Pathology, Chemistry C(ASCP)

• New York Department of Health Certificate of Qualification (CQ)

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