Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Quality Management Coordinator

Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology

Adjunct Faculty

CLS Program - Mayo School of Health Sciences - Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Ruth worked in all phases of the clinical laboratory as a medical technologist in Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, and California. These positions were in a wide variety of clinical settings including metropolitan and rural hospitals, independent laboratories, and clinic settings. Her positions included chemistry specialist, microbiologist specialist, QA/QC, generalist, management of an independent laboratory, management experience, phlebotomy educator and program coordinator, and most recent as a quality management coordinator. Her position as phlebotomy educator and program coordinator included teaching phlebotomy techniques to a wide range of student disciplines which includes an in-house phlebotomy training program, as well as five programs from Mayo School of Health Sciences and the Mayo Medical School. Ruth presented educational lectures in phlebotomy and quality management as a guest faculty member for Mayo Medical Laboratories. Ruth designed, wrote, and taught a phlebotomy technician program for Rochester Community and Technical College, Rochester, MN with the first class of students graduating May, 2000. Ruth was a member of the Phlebotomy exam committee for the National Credentialing Agency for Laboratory Personnel (NCA) from 1997 as writer and reviewer of exam questions, a past national Phlebotomy Exam Chair (2000-2003), a chair of the NCA Phlebotomy Job Analysis committee (2004-2005), and served as a second level cognitive reviewer of exam questions for the Phlebotomy NCA exam. With the merger of the NCA and the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) under one organization (ASCP), Ruth served as a member of the certification exam committee for Phlebotomy and Donor Phlebotomy. Ruth retired from clinical practice in 2014.