Rod Markin

Dr. Rodney Smith "Rod" Markin, M.D., Ph.D. (born 1956), is an American pioneer and leading authority in the field of laboratory automation. In 1993, he designed and created one of the world's first automated clinical laboratory specimen, device and analyzer management systems. In the mid-1990s, he chaired a standards group called the Clinical Testing Automation Standards Steering Committee (CTASSC) of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, which later evolved into an area committee of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute.A hepatic, gastro-intestinal and solid-organ transplant pathologist by training, Markin continues to be a leading researcher in the field of clinical systems automation. Currently, he serves as the chief operating officier of the University of Nebraska system, associate vice chancellor for business development for the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and executive director of the UNeTech Institute of the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska Omaha. He serves as both the David T. Purtilo Professor in the Department of Pathology and Microbiology in UNMC's College of Medicine as well as the Sackler Director of the UNeTech Institute. .[6]Prior to his current position, he was the chief technology officer at UNMC, interim dean of the UNMC College of Medicine, board chairman and president and CEO of the Nebraska Medicine clinical practice plan (fka UNMC Physicians), an academic medical practice which includes more than 500 physicians, and has held several other administrative and academic positions at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Markin serves on the boards of, the Keck Graduate Institute(KGI),Trovagene Inc.(TROV), PerceptiMed, Paradigm Diagnostics and Prairie Ventures. He also has served on the board of Children's Hospital & Medical Center of Omaha, The Nebraska Medical Center (now Nebraska Medicine), University Medical Associates/UNMC Physicians (now part of Nebraska Medicine), Trans