Dr. Sidney Goldblatt, MD, is the 2019 recipient of the Kellison Public Service Award. Dr. Goldblatt has been founder, medical director and CEO of Molecular Dx; founder and CEO of Goldblatt Systems; founder and expert pathologist for ForensicDx; and founder and CEO of Goldblatt Pathology Associates. The award recognizes the dedication of his life and career as a medical doctor, pathologist, scientist, and entrepreneur to making health care better and to enable data-driven medical discovery. (Pictured here are Scott Liff, president and CEO of Kellison and Company; Laura Voeghtly, Chief Scientist at MolecularDx, who accepted the award on behalf of Dr. Goldblatt; and Jonathan Ziebarth of G2 Intelligence. The presentation was made at Lab Institute 2019, a conference presented by G2 Intelligence this month in Washington, D.C.) After graduating from Temple Medical School, Dr. Goldblatt joined the NIH as a researcher. Later, as chairman at Conemaugh Memorial, he worked with the founder of digital equipment corporation to build one of the industry’s first laboratory information systems, CliniLab. In 1979, he founded Sunquest Information Systems to enable the creation of clinical laboratory data to support patient care. To facilitate inter-operability, Sunquest worked with UCSF and OAIS to deliver on the earliest implementation of […]